Magnet and computer data

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can a magnet suck data from the computers?
:hyper:

Fortunately, most modern storage devices, such as SD and CompactFlash memory cards, are immune to magnetic fields. "There's nothing magnetic in flash memory, so [a magnet] won't do anything," says Bill Frank, executive director of the CompactFlash Association. "A magnet powerful enough to disturb the electrons in flash would be powerful enough to suck the iron out of your blood cells," says Frank.

The same goes for hard drives. The only magnets powerful enough to scrub data from a drive platter are laboratory degaussers or those used by government agencies to wipe bits off media. "In the real world, people are not losing data from magnets," says Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer with hard-drive maker Seagate. "In every disk," notes Rudock, "there's one heck of a magnet that swings the head."

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dalbir said:
can a magnet suck data from the computers?

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Yes a Magnet can destroy date from Hard drive if it is powerful enough! NOT if they are what you can call fridge magnets.

freshseasons said:
Yes a Magnet can destroy date from Hard drive if it is powerful enough! NOT if they are what you can call fridge magnets.

date or data?

^^ Data of course.
Anyway this is not the place to ask this question, wrong section.