If you are close enough to a hard drive for a magnet to affect it, you are close enough to hit it with a crowbar.
Do I look like I can lift a crowbar and swing it around a few times 😣
You have a comically large magnet.
And what are you going to do? Catch some crazy guy, tie him to the comically big magnet, roll it around and shout some nonsense? Isn’t this how religion-related stuff is done?
Strong magnets will flip bits in hard drives.
Not solid state media, though; now we know why the world is shifting to SSDs! It’s all an
AIAntichrist plot!Though, I guess if OP’s magnet is comically large enough, it could just physically damage the circuitry, and it won’t matter. You’re the savior we need, OP!
Please stop spreading this quote as if it was anywhere near reality. It is nonsense in every way.
Not since like 2010. Unless you’re still using spinning disks somewhere in an old NAS in a closet.
Well, okay, might also depend on your definition of strong.
me and my hard drives I bought last year for mass storage would like to object, but I can’t find my way out of the closet.
neodymium magnets shall ultimately save us all.
