Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk?
scytale@piefed.zip 4 days agoWait really? I used to work at a place where we cleared out HDDs with a degausser. I'm pretty sure that thing wasn't as strong as a car junkyard magnet.
Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk?
scytale@piefed.zip 4 days agoWait really? I used to work at a place where we cleared out HDDs with a degausser. I'm pretty sure that thing wasn't as strong as a car junkyard magnet.
zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Degaussers use varying magnetic fields in a specific way, it’s not raw field strength doing the erasing.