A few of those were good to learn about... but a lot of it I don't trust. I mean, come on... "We didn't check disk fragmentation because some hard-drive experts told us that defragging today's faster, bigger drives has little to no effect on performance."
I have a feeling this guy doesn't know that much about what he's talking about - this was in testing for problems pulling power instead of shutting down.
some bad, some right, some look like they were made up on the spot, for example "You'll mess things up if you unplug a usb device without disabling it first" ---and this is rated at 3 where as the magnet deal is rated at 4 (meaning less truthful rumor). I bet if you had a good magnet, or an electro magnet that you could completely shred data up, come on, the data is written with magnets mostly to begin with.
Yes, but who has a powerful electromagnet sitting around their PC? It's not like you're going to walk up to your HDD with a degaussing rifle and wipe your data.
Fact of the matter is, HDD armatures are positioned via neodymium-iron-boron (rare earth) magnets. They're powerful enough to do the old move a magnet through the table trick with 2 inches of wood between them and they're not much bigger than one dime wide, two dimes long and three dimes thick. They're a hell of a lot more powerful than any magnet most of us have laying around.
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MACS ARE GOOD
Intel CPUs are the most compatible.
I have a feeling this guy doesn't know that much about what he's talking about - this was in testing for problems pulling power instead of shutting down.
Fact of the matter is, HDD armatures are positioned via neodymium-iron-boron (rare earth) magnets. They're powerful enough to do the old move a magnet through the table trick with 2 inches of wood between them and they're not much bigger than one dime wide, two dimes long and three dimes thick. They're a hell of a lot more powerful than any magnet most of us have laying around.