Can a (notebook) hard drive be affected by magnets, such as those in a headphone or a cell phone'?
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I would like to carry the notebook computer around, together with the ear-bud headphones and the cell phone. But since ear-bud headphones have magnets into it, can't it affect the notebook's hard drive? I think cellphone is more common for people to carry around with their notebook, except cellphon…
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Hard drives themselves have some of the more powerful magnets available to control the read-write head and are completely impervious to anything you could set on them. See this article from PCWorld busting PC myths: http://www.pcworld.com/article/11…
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