Dear All Can anyone advise on standards relating to recommended environmental conditions for (short-term) storage of external hard-drives? I cannot find much information other than The National Archives, Care, Handling and Storage of Removable Media: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/remo vable-media-care.pdf Thanks Ellie Dr Ellie Pridgeon Deputy Archivist Science Museum Library and Archives Science Museum at Wroughton Hackpen Lane Wroughton Swindon SN4 9NS Telephone: 01793 846211 Fax: 01793 798021 Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> URL: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/library For updates on all Science Museum news and events sign up to our free e-newsletter at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk This e-mail and attachments are intended for the named addressee only and are confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the sender immediately, delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not reflect the views of the National Museum of Science & Industry. This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra