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- KernelPanic, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Still waiting on inexpensive Solid State Drives...
KP - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19Its the porn avalanche thats affecting my hard drive...
- skjede, on 10/10/2007, -3/+18I have enough trouble as it is going around my office and taking magnets off co-worker's cases.
- Lumiras, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14You do realize that one of the main components of a hard drive is a...........get this....a really, really powerful magnet?
Tiny little magnets from your local Chinese takeout place aren't going to hurt anything - creoderiot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8i don't care, i still like this stuff
- skjede, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10But when you've assembled every collectible Elvis magnet to make an unholy montage that covers the entire side panel, then you've got a problem.
The Chinese magnets are usually on the other side. - manmademark, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7FTA "As PC World noted, Deutsch and Berger's letter suggests that today's hard drives are mostly immune to runaway avalanches because of this damping effect, something achieved by trial and error over the years as manufacturers found out what materials made for reliable hard drives"
In other words, this really shouldn't concern you - subxero37, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5My friends shat bricks when I told them I was going to order some high-grade magnets from a company called *United Nuclear.*
These will definitely affect a hard drive.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/magnets.htm - Advenger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Isn't this why the perpendicular recording was developed?
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -9/+14im in ur hard disks causing ur avalanchez
- Lorian, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Seriously, take apart an old hard drive and you will see how powerful the magnet is.
A magnet strong enough to affect the hard drive would pull the iron from your blood. - skjede, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4touché
- Kinjiru, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4and we should be terrified of your 3 yr old leet speak as well right?...
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Hmm, I remember hearing about this, wasn't it called something along the lines of the Superparamagnetic effect or something like that? I can't believe I actually learned this from a silly flash animation. Get Perpendicular!
- cquinnd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The magnet in a hard drive is also in a position where its magnetic field is not as much in direct contact with the drive platter. Which you cannot garauntee from magnets attached to the case, regardless of how weak or strong they might be.
- Rinnt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,116572-page,1/article.html
- jts8, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2great, another thing I don't need to worry about. I'm going to go back up my data...
- Ajajadude, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just thinking that. Hopefully soon, this potential problem wont be worth thinking about.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2When one is a pinhead without an education as are you, everything seems irrelevant, i'm sure, except hip-hop music and dope.
- DiggFight, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This article is just fud. At the bottom they state that modern hard drives are largely "immune" to this because they have already encountered this problem and found ways to work around it.
- gridbread, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I've been rooting for SSD, for a while.
I can't wait till there is mass adoption of the solid state storage medium and that we can leave conventional hard drives as a problematic thing of the past.
Standard hard drives with their moving parts are of the worst components to plague my various systems, they've been my number 1 cause of all costly maintenance, over the years. - UnknownCzar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1While you will never in your lifetime experience this effect, it is however a limit on hdd space.
hitachi semi-solved it by their perpendicular thing as shown above in a post, but even then thats just 10x more then horizontal.
The point is the way we are doing things now is not going to work ten years in the future as we reach the limit. - MasterThief117, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What about all my porn? How will I ever be able to replace it? Oh wait...
- 2oonhed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I have an avalanche in my PANTS!
- aphriza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0i think you're being a bit blinkered in your response to this. sure, you don't have to worry about it - but what sort of hi-tech stuff does a consumer ever have to worry about? The neat thing about this article is that they now may be able to move away from trial-and-error solutions and toward solutions based on actually understanding the phenomenon. Have you ever tried to solve something by trial and error? It's generally not the most efficient use of your time.
- unjustend, on 10/10/2007, -5/+4Pete and Repeat are on a boat, pete falls out. Who is left in the boat?
It is interesting though. - Soriven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0that was a beautiful owning right there
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0too much is no good no matter what is it
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1no u should beware of muh lol catz speak
- twatwaffle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Bent displays can harm laptops too
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_GM_says_warped_MacBook_Pro_displays_literally_part_of_the_design
Oh, and its all caught on video.
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