I know the conditions sound extreme like a place nothing would ever be asked to operate in, but take an enclosed chassis with stuff running and give the laptop to a guy who has to do some diagnosis on a generator housed in a windmill on the Tehachapi pass or a mechanic having to pull codes from a transmission on a truck in the snow. Suddenly those temps actually matter.
Yeah, even just a boring old electrical panel becomes hell to a regular computer if it's +30 C outside and there's no active ventilation. Many small-form-factor industrial PCs I've worked with are 100% passive (on purpose) so components like this are quite important.
Consumer and business laptops are not designed for wide temperature operation in most cases. However, there are ruggedized laptops and industrial-grade computer systems that are built with such conditions in mind. Having suitable memory is beneficial to OEMs that produce those sorts of products.
even in Austria we sometimes have -20°C for 1 or 2 weeks a year. So for systems required to run 100% of the time it really makes a lot of sense to use such RAM.
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Demon-Xanth - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
I know the conditions sound extreme like a place nothing would ever be asked to operate in, but take an enclosed chassis with stuff running and give the laptop to a guy who has to do some diagnosis on a generator housed in a windmill on the Tehachapi pass or a mechanic having to pull codes from a transmission on a truck in the snow. Suddenly those temps actually matter.evilspoons - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
Yeah, even just a boring old electrical panel becomes hell to a regular computer if it's +30 C outside and there's no active ventilation. Many small-form-factor industrial PCs I've worked with are 100% passive (on purpose) so components like this are quite important.shabby - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
There's more than one component in a laptop, are all of them made to work at those temps? Doubt it.BrokenCrayons - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
Consumer and business laptops are not designed for wide temperature operation in most cases. However, there are ruggedized laptops and industrial-grade computer systems that are built with such conditions in mind. Having suitable memory is beneficial to OEMs that produce those sorts of products.rscsrAT - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
even in Austria we sometimes have -20°C for 1 or 2 weeks a year. So for systems required to run 100% of the time it really makes a lot of sense to use such RAM.Ithaqua - Tuesday, November 29, 2016 - link
Well I've lived in northern Canada and in the badlands. -40C to +40C is all too common.stardude82 - Monday, November 28, 2016 - link
Sort of looks like just about every RAM module manufacture makes wide temperature range industrial modules. Micron rates their from -40C to 95C.walter52 - Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - link
allram.ru - Industrial dram and memory cards Transcend, GTech Memory and other manufacturers