It's always nice to have a powerful rare earth telescoping magnet in your pocket at all times that can pick up a heavy impact socket without a problem, right? It might not be a good thing to have right next to an expensive scan tool ,SD card ,or laptop PC, you are carrying right next to the pocket it's in .
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Oh geez, I doubt you have a magnet strong enough to kill an SD card. I also find it unlikely your "rare earth" magnet is strong enough to damage a PC hard drive. The magnet needed to damage a hard drive would need to be a large, powered electromagnet with an oscillating field.Comment
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Oh geez, I doubt you have a magnet strong enough to kill an SD card. I also find it unlikely your "rare earth" magnet is strong enough to damage a PC hard drive. The magnet needed to damage a hard drive would need to be a large, powered electromagnet with an oscillating field.
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Oh geez, I doubt you have a magnet strong enough to kill an SD card. I also find it unlikely your "rare earth" magnet is strong enough to damage a PC hard drive. The magnet needed to damage a hard drive would need to be a large, powered electromagnet with an oscillating field.
Wanna try it on your hard drive-??
I wouldn't. All it has to do is scramble a single 0 or 1 in the wrong sector and you're done.Comment
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If you have a newish upscale cell phone then you have more computing power and memory in your hand than NASA had to send some guys to the moon with. Now you may have seen various mounts for these little computers for cars to stick the thing to your dash or something. Some of these involve clamps, some are simply MAGNETS. You literally stick your phone to them as there is enough steel in a phone to hold. And these magnets are pretty strong. Get the idea? The days of floppy disks are long gone, modern stuff is a LOT ore resistant to stray magnetic fields. I don't think I'd be using my pocket magnet as a stylus but other than that I have not one worry about it being in proximity to our scanners.Comment
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Hey , just because a new Samsung is water resistant in up to 5 feet of water doesn't mean it's gonna survive just 12 inches of water in your washing machine.Or if you buy a Chinese Magnetic phone holder and been using it with no problems with the phone operating for a year, doesn't mean when try to transfer your 64 GB of photos, Files , and videos from the phone to your PC , some of the files will be corrupted and won't be transferable.
I'm pretty sure the small magnetic tip of some of the magnetic pickup tool next to an electronic device for the small given area it affects is probably stronger than what that small given area woud experience from a EMP weapon detonated in the atmosphere, that would take out the power grid and many electronic devices.Comment
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Well I can tell you this, the magnets don't seem to have any effect on a flash drive. Sliding the magnets around underneath the laptop didn't seem to bother it much either.Comment
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