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Originally Posted by Loud_Silence
I've been using computers for a long time now, but i still have a question kicking my brains.
Hard drives have magnets and coils inside, the magnets inside the spinning motor, and two very powerful magnets for the r/w arm.
If the hard drives are so sensitive that a small magnet outside can trash all the data stored on them, why the powerful magnets inside don't have any effect on the data?  |
They are a constant. If you want to kill the data, you are going to need a strong electromagnet and you are going to need to move it all around the drive to pull the magnetic data out of position.
-S