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Originally Posted by bigfour
I belive that there's 1 or 2 strong magnets near the read/write head. At least they were strong... I don't know how compact HD designs have gotten.
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Things haven't changed much in the past 20 years or so in that respect. The R/W heads and erase magnet (not usually even present anymore) are somewhat smaller than a pencil eraser. Insignificant in the context of this discussion.