Quote: Originally Posted by fluffy2097
We've also had a few hard drives fail due to cold weather.
A properly mounted hard drive should not give you problems. Unless you run into a tree.
Two points, from lots of experiance.
Cold effects hard drives with FDB (fluid dynamic bearings) by slowing the RPMs of the platters this reduces the chance to boot but does not hurt the drive at all. After it warms a a little it will boot just fine.
Other drives are fine.
Running into a tree will cause the driver and other parts of the car far more trouble than the HD. My HD has been in 3 or 4 wrecks one bent the frame on my 91 toyota truck (totaled the truck). The HD is still in use.