Comment on Are modern electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) still susceptible to damage from magnets?

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osbo9991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

With hard drives specifically it would cause the arm inside to move and scratch the disk.

Really? I thought magnets placed near hard drives would just magnitize the platters in such a way that the data would be destroyed. In that case it would still work if reformatted I think.

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