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(Ad Free) Hard Drive vs. Neodymium Magnets
🕑 Added 2025-09-19 04:17:22 +0000 UTCHow bad is it really if you place extremely strong magnets near a running hard drive? Let's find out!
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John Mahlman IV
That jumpcut at the end was amazing
Rob Tongeman
totally loved this dude!! Please do more 'dangerous' stuff !!
Alan Grassia
Hard Disk Hijinks....for Science! Oh boy.
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....
Garth Beagle
poor monkey..
Jack Beckman
Would a full (not quick) format possibly save that drive?
John Boren
Sean let the intrusive thoughts win!
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.
Tracy Jayne
Thanks for the interesting and informative shenanigans!
Mac84
HAHA, yessssss! Loved this insanity - yes to more weird stuff ❤️
