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How bad is it really if you place extremely strong magnets near a running hard drive? Let's find out!

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Mac84

HAHA, yessssss! Loved this insanity - yes to more weird stuff ❤️

Tracy Jayne

Thanks for the interesting and informative shenanigans!

Allan Clipperton-Boyer

In 2001, I used a simple fridge magnet, to somehow erase the CMOS on an old 486 or Pentium 1 system. I left it sitting on the chip for a good hour or so, and when I came back, the computer wouldn't even boot. 🤷🏽‍♂️🤷🏽‍♂️ I don't know if I actually erased the chip, or something else, but there was no display out.

John Boren

Sean let the intrusive thoughts win!

Jack Beckman

Would a full (not quick) format possibly save that drive?

Bolling H. Holt IV

Ah man... cool experiment, but I hate seeing perfectly-good drives sacrificed LOL. My guess is that with that magnet being so strong it perhaps misaligned the heads (at least at some point) dragging them across the disk surface, perhaps. Hmm....

Alan Grassia

Hard Disk Hijinks....for Science! Oh boy.

Rob Tongeman

totally loved this dude!! Please do more 'dangerous' stuff !!