Can magnet damage hard disk?

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• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • ook@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    • three@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So weird, literally just watched this episode last night.

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    • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’d need a banana for scale to see if this is huge or a macro photo of a small thing.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • zagaberoo@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Degaussers use varying magnetic fields in a specific way, it’s not raw field strength doing the erasing.

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  • PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thats a releaf 😅

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    • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “relief” is how that word is spelled. Like belief.

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• nous@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• fedtemis@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have one in my case, attached to the metal part covering the PSU in a CM silencio case. I have a single 2.5" hdd in the same case, without any issues.

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  • PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yea but the problem is my hard disk is in its bracket made from metal and this support gadget is directly on that metal…

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    • fedtemis@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t worry. As others has said in this thread; a way more powerful magnet is present inside the HDD. Also fans produce magentic fields to a small degree. Then again, I don’t store anything important on the magnetic drive in my PC, so I’m not risking anything. 🤷‍♂️

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    • fedtemis@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You could always remove the magnet, and glue the support in.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You would need a really strong electromagnet to actually kill a hard drive through magnetism alone.

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  • PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And what about extended period of time? This thing is siting there and hard drive also for etrnity?

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• smallerdemon@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  LOL You know what will damage a hard drive? A regularly used electric pencil sharpener on top of the case directly over the hard drive for a few years.

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• who@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren’t strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them.

  If you’re concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a paper towel spool. The graphics card’s weight will probably hold it in place.

  In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives eventually die even when no magnets are around.

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• furrowsofar@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fields can, just depends how strong and this applies to spinning hrd drives not SSDs. We had an idiot at work once that decides to store a bunch of magnetic bases on the top of a tower PC. Corrupted the drive.

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• PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  Ok so here is the situacian. I have rx 6800xt merc that definitly needs some kind of support. But down there is place for two hdds. I have one in top slot. So magnet is directly above 😶 thats im a bit voried.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    there’s good separation between the magnet and even the topmost hdd position.

    you will be fine either way!

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    • PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good to hear that, because its not even a 1cm its more like 5mm

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you give me a link for this product? mine says a little and something like this would make me feel better that it won’t break lol.

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    • PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It doesnt have any branding and site that i bought it from is local site that operates only in my country… So cant realy give you the exact product name or anything. It just sad gpu holder. But it shouldnt be hard to find now that you know how it looks…

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• MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I doubt it would affect anything, it takes a very large magnet to damage a HDD from outside the casing.

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