Do electronic devices, hard drives, and laptops fail faster in highly-polluted environments?

Highly-polluted environments (especially ones with nanoparticles) could have more dust contamination, which could increase the amount of tiny dust that accumulates inside hard drives.

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• hard-drives

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• wizzard0: Digital preservation is about preserving data, not servicing hardware. Your question is better asked on ServerFault.com .

Answer by wizzard0

1. Hard drives have dust filters and generally not collect any dust inside.
2. Dust kills fans and therefore laptops
3. "electronic devices" fear conductive dust and overheating, so in general dust is bad. But it is not usually the main source of failure.

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