On Thursday 15 July 2004 16:13, William M. Quarles wrote: > Although, this is also a Sony Vaio desktop, and they all also stupidly > use small magnets to retain all of their cosmetic cover flaps on the > front. There is one that is pretty close to the hard drive. That might > be part of the problem, too. IIUC it's unlikely to cause a problem since the coercivity of hard drive platters is several thousand Oersteds. Even if such a small magnet was directly touching the drive the field'd only be about 500 Gauss or so.
