Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets?
Dookieman12@piefed.social 1 week ago
It’s fine.
The reason it was an issue with old TVs is because they worked by firing electrons at the screen. Magnets would misalign the internal components resulting in an area of the screen with permanently damaged coloring roughly in the shape of the magnetic field.
The reason it was an issue with old hard drives is because a magnet would read and write the ones and zeroes off the drive platters kind of like a vinyl record player, and any magnetic interference could potentially corrupt the data on the drive.
Modern solid state storage devucess are (mostly) unaffected by this problem because they read and write data using electricity instead of magnets.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 week ago
Nah, it’s not fine. A changing magnetic field still induces current in any conductor. So, swipe a strong enough magnet across your phone in the wrong place and you’ll run a strong risk of doing something similar to ESD damage.