I have a device like this and it supports heavy gpu inside my pc. Wery usefull and nicly built thing made from metal. But the consern is it has a magnet on botom side, so it sticks to metal surfece inside the case. Wery usefull again but my hard disk is under that metal surfice. So i wonder can it corupt data or damage hdd itself…?!
Yes magnets can affect HDDs. But it needs to be very strong and close to the HDD. I wouldn’t worry unless you are directly attaching it to you HDD and even then it probably won’t do much if anything at all.
Remember HDDs already have strong permanent magnets inside them. Probably way stronger then the one on the bottom of that support.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
I wouldn’t expect it to. I think mythbusters did an episode on this, and it took the strength of one of those car lifting magnet cranes to damage a HDD.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
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three@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So weird, literally just watched this episode last night.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I’d need a banana for scale to see if this is huge or a macro photo of a small thing.
scytale@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait 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 3 weeks ago
Degaussers use varying magnetic fields in a specific way, it’s not raw field strength doing the erasing.
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Thats a releaf 😅
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
“relief” is how that word is spelled. Like belief.