Magnets?

[.alchinko.]

ok i was wondering what would magnets do to your computer. im thinken about putting a door in the fornt of my case and having it stay closed my magnets.... would that mess anything up... im think'n might screw up HDD

[Omega]

if they are very small and weak, it will be fine. Keep the HD's away from them, though.

My CM Cavalier has magnets that can actually hold the door on if the hinge goes missing, but my HD's are fine (The magnets also arent too powerful).


But if you're worried, just use something else.

[AKA_RA]

i wouldnt be worried about any magnets messing up your hard drive unless theyre intended for industrial use. consider that fact that harddrives actually have magnets in them already. i highly doubt a little magnet holding your door closed will cause any sort of data loss. just dont stick it to your hard drive for an extended period of time

[.alchinko.]

aight thnaks for the info.

[Cool1Net6]

Magnet against hard drive = bad.
Magnet against spinning hard drive = worse.

Are rare earth magnets fine, like the ones used inside hard drives? And how close is a safe distance?

-Cool-

[Aero]

magnetic fields decrease exponentially with distance. So anything more than a few inches should be fine for all but large magnets. Rare earth magnets should be fine, but I would keep them atleast an inch away while the HDD is running. For a static HDD any distance should be fine. My rare earth magnets used to get stuck to my old Archos MP3 player all the time and I never had one problem with data loss.

[CanaBalistic]

The magnets inside the hard drive are very powerful. I couldnt see anything happening if you stuck a weak fridge type magnet right on it.

[rusty shackleford]

just use velcro its black and prolly wont stick out apply it to the inside of the door and the corresponding place on the case id say put it in four places but that might be overkil one a 2/3 and another at 1/3 the way down the side on the non hinge side and another 1 and the middle of the top and the bottom might be a little hard to get open though

[.alchinko.]

yeah thats what i was thinking but then it wouldnt close all te way.. it would stick out a little bit.

[.Maleficus.]

What about magnets on a moniter? Doesn't that screw something up?