Some services supplied under license from Open Globe, Inc. The driver's door closed to avoid having power being delivered to the hard drive.※ Download: ?dl&keyword=bmw+idrive+gracenote+update&source= If you have moved your vehicle into a warm garage to thaw out a hard drive seized by cold temperature, leave On some models, opening the driver's door with the ignition OFF causes the hard drive to spin up. Powering your MyGig when the hard drive is mechanically frozen causes extremely high stress for the drive and mayĬause permanent failure on any occurrence. Most manufacturer's Standard Duty hard drive Specifications.ġ0☏ = the low end we specify in our product listings.ġ0☏ = the tested "Safe" temperature to avoid mechanical freeze up.ħ☏ = the tested temperature (+/-) where the Toshiba drives mechanically freeze. Review these temperature facts if you are considering using a Standard Duty hard drive in a cold climate.Ĥ1☏ = the low end of the operating temperature range in Standard Duty Hard Drive Temperature Facts This can be done with the car parked or when driving normally.Īfter you have run your engine long enough to warm up the interior of you vehicle, your MyGig system may If you try to run your Mygigīefore the drive has thawed out, you risk further damage to the Turn off your MyGig and leave it off until the interior of the car hasįully warmed to room temperature. Starting Temp 122° (after highway driving) Stored heat than cars with small engines.ġ2 hour Hard Drive Cool Off at 4☏ Outdoor Temperature The Jeep has a 5.7 Liter engine which has more
Transmission keep your MyGig system fairly warm for a few hours. The residual heat in the engine block and This Graph comes from an overnight cool-off with a 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee. You about a 20☏ advantage over being parked in the shade or overnight. If you park in direct sun-light you can leave your outside all day at -5☏ without a problem. (below 0☏), without a problem - provided it started with a fully You can park your car for 4 or 5 hours when its really cold outside With the outside temperature at 15☏ or above, your hard drive will beįine no matter how long your car is parked outside. (Starting with your car interior and engine fully warmed from driving) There is a good chance with will cause permanent failure the first time it happens. If you have a Standard Duty hard drive in your MyGig system and live or travel into cold temperatures, it might be helpful to know how long it will take for your hard drive to mechanically freeze when you park outside.Ī Standard Duty drive freezes when its temperature drops into the range of 5 to 10 Fahrenheit. We were careful to minimize the amount of time the drives were "trying" to spin up while frozen using the "warm up" guidelines in the next column. Our 40GB and 60GB Toshiba Standard Duty drives survived 3 mechanical-freeze cycles and returned to service when they warmed up. The System Information Screen will show missing Gracenote and Navigation Database error messages This message will be displayed if you select the Nav button. If a radio program was played last, these models will resume theĪM/FM radio or Sirius program if Sirius equipped. The system will hang on the vehicle-logo for about 15-20 We recorded MyGig system behavior when the hard drives were fully seized by -20☌ hard drive temperatures.
Good condition because normally the high velocity air film on a spinning disk keeps the heads flying a few Spin-up at +5☏ but the head servos were actively trying to find data on the stationary disks. Test Results - Mechanical Freeze Temperatureīoth Navigation and HDD Music worked normally when the hard drive temperature was +10☏. Would read Navigation and Music data when the MyGig radio was turned on. Hours later, when they dropped to +20☏ we started testing at 5☏ intervals to see if the drives The hard drives started at over +120☏ followingĪ drive around town. We had remote temperature sensors attached to the hardĭrive mounting plates for tracking temperature through the nights. 27☏ahrenheit (actual temperature, not wind-chill). We parked 2 Jeep Grand Cherokees outside overnight on three separate nights with outdoor temperatures as low These are the same models we ship to customers. We tested 60GB and 40GB Standard Duty Toshiba hard drives through three freeze cycles. The Test Switch to Celsius version of this page Internal temperature is 0☏ahrenheit or colder ? Will your Standard Duty hard drive survive being powered on when its In a cold climate you may be able to avoid super-cold conditions most of the time, but when traveling, your car mayĮnd up outside over-night in sub-zero weather.