When the temperature starts plunging, we start wearing warmer clothes to protect ourselves from the cold. Unfortunately, while we get warmer, it is often overlooked that our tools are getting cold too. The cold temps can be devastating to the electrical components of consumer grade laptops and tablets. One of the components hardest hit will be the hard drive. The lubricants inside a hard drive will freeze, not allowing the drive to spin at the proper speed or even boot up at all; thereby corrupting data or destroying the hard drive permanently.
A Panasonic Toughbook is built from the ground up to be able to not only survive, but also to function in the toughest of environments.Fully rugged Panasonic Toughbooks and Toughpads and some semi-rugged models include hard drive heaters that help keep the hard drive at safe operating temperatures.When first booting up a cold Toughbook or Toughpad, the hard drive heater will kick on and the unit will turn on once it has reached safe operating temps.Because of their design, fully rugged Toughbooks can function at operating temperatures as low -20 degrees Fahrenheit and are stress tested to -60 degrees Fahrenheit non-operating temperature.These thermal shock tests are performed in accordance with MIL-STD-810G procedures.
A Toughbook is a tool; built to survive in conditions where the user is more likely to fail before the Toughbook itself.
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