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Bag alone helps little, one needs silica gel
Authored by: hamarkus on Nov 03, '06 11:29:20AM

A bag alone will not prevent condensation or ice formation since the air in the bag will have maybe 50% humidity at room temperature, which in the fridge/freezer when cooled down will reach 100% pretty quickly, pretty much what you have in the fridge/freezer already.

It will prevent condensation dropping from above on the drive, though.

To really prevent condensation, you need a sealed back plus enough silica gel (or similar material), let the silica gel adsorb the humidity for mabye an hour before you put everything in the fridge/freezer.



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Bag alone helps little, one needs silica gel
Authored by: DavidRavenMoon on Nov 03, '06 01:46:32PM

Hard drives are sealed anyway, so I doubt any of this is a problem.

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Bag alone helps little, one needs silica gel
Authored by: vonleigh on Nov 03, '06 10:40:24PM

Hard drives are not completely sealed.



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