Automotive harddrives.

**Maximus** · 10-02-2004, 02:12 PM

With all the concerns people are having regarding high/low temperatures I see very little (or nothing) mentioning the automotive harddrives.

Over here in Sweden the temperature is shifting quite a bit, -30 Celcius in the winter and +30-35 in summer.
I was thinking about getting one as a systems drive since they claim that it can operate down to -20 celcius,
(Built to operate in temperature ranges of up to -20° C to +85° C), and then use a regular 200GB drive for media.

Have anyone used the Hitachi or Fujitsu automotive range ?

Hitachi Endurastar J4K20
http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techl...N4K20final.PDF

I haven't been able to find any specs. on the Fujitsu drive, but I'm told it's similar to the Hitachi.
Model: Fujitsu mht2020ac
http://www.provantage.com/yFUJC08Q.htm

**stevieg** · 10-02-2004, 02:19 PM

Neat - like the look of it, even though I've never had any problems with my bog standard unit.

Do you know of any European suppliers of the Hitachi?

**Maximus** · 10-02-2004, 03:04 PM

Do you know of any European suppliers of the Hitachi?

Sort of... I called an importer over here, but they didn't sell to the public.
I could go to one of their retailers, but then the price would go up by a fair bit so I figured I'd buy mine from the US...
[EDIT] I did

and found this one for you UK guys:
http://www.span.com/catalog/product_...oducts_id=4032 [/EDIT]

Hitachi also have some wierd policy where they have to approve all customers.

So unless someone here has a better option I'm going to order a Fujitsu drive from Provantage (price is good and they ship internationally)