[Pointbreakd]

I have my stereo attached to my laptop. The speakers are on the same small desk as the laptop. It's an older Aiwa Stereo system. Is there a chance that the speaker magnets will mess up my laptop/my external Harddrive?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Pointbreakd

I have my stereo attached to my laptop. The speakers are on the same small desk as the laptop. It's an older Aiwa Stereo system. Is there a chance that the speaker magnets will mess up my laptop/my external Harddrive?

Thanks

It has never happened to me. I believe this is because hard disks are not magnetically based like floppy disks and magenetic based optical drives/magnetic cartridges and tapes.

Vicky

[Aptmunich]

Well technically harddrives are magnet-based, but for whatever reason normal magnetic fields don't damage them.

Apparently even holding a proper magnet right to one shouldn't do much harm - to actually destroy the data you need a really powerful electric magnet.

So no.

[the_New_guy]

not likely but possible.

don't worry

[ed724]

Originally Posted by Pointbreakd

I have my stereo attached to my laptop. The speakers are on the same small desk as the laptop. It's an older Aiwa Stereo system. Is there a chance that the speaker magnets will mess up my laptop/my external Harddrive?

Thanks

The magnets in your stereo system are not very powful. It would take an extremley large and powerfull magnetic field to effect an HD. Consider the high strengh magnets residing within the drive for the voice coil. Those have no effect on the drives reading, writing or retaining data.

ed724

[Avalon]

Originally Posted by Aptmunich

Well technically harddrives are magnet-based, but for whatever reason normal magnetic fields don't damage them.

Apparently even holding a proper magnet right to one shouldn't do much harm - to actually destroy the data you need a really powerful electric magnet.

So no.

Actually, it is still possible to destroy a harddisk with a normal magnet, but yes, it has to be quite powerfull. Harddisks basically just work exactly like floppy disks (from a pure technical point of view), but on a floppy disk there's nothing much around the disk than a bit of plastic, so holding a magnet close to it is like if the disk was without enclosure.

I was once able to destroy a harddisk with a magnet, but
1. it was a very big magnet from an old Infinity speaker
2. the magnet was lying directly on the harddisk
3. it was lying like that for almost a week

So basically, there's nothing to worry about...

[Aptmunich]

Ok thanks for clarifying that

[Pointbreakd]

awesome. thanks all