what Magnets do to a Hard Drive  

The logic of "dont do this / try this at home" 🤣

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@@vlogman5657 you looks kinda sus 😳

At school

Well, you can always try at the neighbours

@@shotgunenjoyer9222 ok lol

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I hate that saying. Just get an old hard drive that you plan to throw out and try it anyway. It's not a big deal :/

Faer god in yourself

Time to apply zimmerit paste

Hahaha that's a good one XD

D:

I once placed a magnet near HDD, the the windows glitchy. Then i took the magnet clock far away from my pc.

C: local disk Z: distant disk

Exactly

Not sure what kind of magnet that is, but most magnets wont do much if the drive stays closed. The metal body is there specifically to protect the drive from stuff like that. Stronger magnets will likely corrupt data even with the drive closed

I've opened a couple of my drives and they work fine.

@@band1t-eats-batteries716 It's just really bad practice unless you can ensure no particles wind up on the disk. The way actual data recovery companies do this is with clean rooms. Like, sure, you can build a PC on carpet and you won't have issues, but it's not a particularly good idea.

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Yeah I quit from a place where I was an Intern. Saw the engineer I had to assist pluck open a failed drive on his messy desk trying to save it. lol

yeah and vcertain drives require specific torque values to press down on the platter or similar otherwise it wont work.

They use a specific vacuum above their heads to make sure no dust comes in contact

@I love you but yes, but they also have extremely fine filters in them

@@micaelmarcos4323 They use air purifiers. (Two big HEPA or similar filters) They usually hang on the ceiling like the lights.

EMP: I can destroy you! SSD: I know but can you destroy him? *Quantum drive walks in*

Nvme: ELLO!

acid enters the chat.

magnet, my atracction speed is faster than ur write/read speed. m.2 enters

The sun enters to destroy everything in its path

You mean SSDs or just new HDDs? Cause You can still degauss HDDs, and SSDs just have an option to release all electric "tension" and basically degauss it

@@kacperkonarzewski6305 wdym tension, in flash memory ones and zeroes are stored as the charge on a float gate transistor

@@wsketchy Man, I'm not English-speaking, I haven't got proper words, of course You're right, that's what I meant

@@kacperkonarzewski6305 SSDs are not magnetic, the bits are not stored in magnetic field. So you can't degauss them.

@@hereiam2005 Same effect, different way Man, I'm saying, I haven't got proper words, I said "basically", yes, it's something else, but effect is the same So many people catching up on words

If you are lucky your data did not end up fried and you are good to go ... On an other pc ... With an other cpu ... Gpu... Ram... Psu... Boot-ssd

remember do not do this at home!

Don't smash your testicles with a hammer at home.

Meanwhile: every school PC has SSD

@ Damnnit

@ *smashes school computer with golf club*

Ha lol. Hope you didn't fail grades cause of that.

lol remind me of thing i do when child, doing little experiment like that. what do you think damaged the laptop anyway?

The same exact thing happened o me but i said it broke because i kept putting my weight in the laptop

Rip

uh oh....

You think the act of lifting the lid caused the read head to start clicking? I don't think you understand how hard drives work...

@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies I know dust in hard drives causes them to malfunction I've tried putting a magnet to a HDD and nothing happens

@@Askejm The guy above is the one who doesn't know how hard drives work. I've put *neodymium* magnets on top of hard drives and nothing happened to them. Neodymium, mind you. Literally the strongest magnets on Earth. The metal cover has some shielding properties that redirect external magnetic fields.

@@gabracal wait, so when you're explaining the lid's mechanism, are you talking to BruceNJeffAreMyFlies or AskeJM? Because u said "the guy above the obe who doesn't jbow how hard drives work" which would be Bruce... but you tagged and corrected what AskeJm said... I'm just a bit confused that's all.

@@jimmysmomschannel I was referring to Bruce.

He covered this. Static won't so much to your PC if it's off

@@manvelmkrtchyan8939 At last, someone who ISNT fearmongering static.

@@autumn5592 but then in what case can static cause damage?

This is worse than a toaster in a bathtub

@@shahnazfiaz2015 Depends on a LOT of factors; Grounding, charge built, humidity in the air, temperature, what you're handling, if it has current going through it, what components it has on it, and the design of the board. In general, modern hardware is very resistant to ESD, and unlike to cause any damage, or if if does it will be minor. Not to say an ESD won't kill modern parts, it's just extremely rare. Handle things by plastic or their grounds, and leave your PSU plugged in while you work on the PC, while regularly touching a metal part that's grounded (standoff screws, rivets, etc) this will remove even more chance of it happening. If you really must be paranoid, get a strap. In my personal experience, I've damaged 1 part through ESD, and that was a RAM stick. I've worked on computers for the past 10-11 years, and my father before me, working on servers. We rarely use any ESD protective equipment. Just tapping the case with the power lead in is enough.

No way, you were soo lucky :D

disk shatters

I just turned mine off and on again and it worked fine.

*slides t.c*

Agree brother

So that is why those usb ports almost never worked. Get some respect for someone elses property, especially when you might need it for a presentation or such.

@@Em.P14 bruh

how many school computers do you know of with the hard disk completely exposed

I know i'm amazed nobody has picked up on this. Ofc it died, it's opened lol. Magnet doesn't mean nothing in this case lol

@@jsebean that- eh nevermind good day sir

Disaster ☠️

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*Laughs in 2tb ssd*

@@FunnyFreak_ hey, it doesn't matter about the space, it matters what you have on it for me it's over 700 hours of gameplay

@@coltonsnyder1386 sounds like its time for a backup drive

Yes, as soon as you open the top cover from the HDD, dust and other dirt immediately enter and kills the HDD.

Exactly

No, the magnet would have destroyed the location data on the platters, meaning the head had no idea where on the disk it was any more. Dust will kill drives but rarely that fast. Platter or head swaps can be done under an extractor hood in a reasonably dust free environment for recovery purposes just fine.

@@The1stImmortal not true the dust would render the drive inoperable as soon as it touched it. Not to mention all of the microscratches.

@@aplatinumorange5112 most environmental dust would only damage the area it lands on. Large particles might get caught on the head and dragged around the disk, but still mechanical damage is localised. It would have to destroy a lot of tracks to completely render the disk inoperable, there's a lot of redundancy built into the tacking information. Of course if you poured gravel on the thing it's toast but that's something more extreme

it broke because he opened the hard drive and the magnet just finished it

@@CreeplayEU opening the drive does nothing, it's his dusty ass desk lol.

@Alin Popovici I know I was just mocking how windows 10 using 100% of HDD is still a problem even for now

Ssd is a must for windows 10

@StDu Stelios No shit sherlock, Windows 10 using HDD at 100% if you install it in the HDD itself, if it's secondary storage Windows won't use it for the system

@StDu Stelios yeah good for your friend then

@Alin Popovici had one die of overuse, came home from work, hearing silent eeeeeeeeeeee noise ... Yep its the drive ... Yep it is warm... Yep im probably fucked... Yep drive not responding... Yep im fucked... Yep gonna check the support page... Hey! They offer drive recovery AND the drive is still 2 weeks IN the warranty... Yep this takes long ... Yep verry long ... Yep probably not good if this long ... Yep was probably scam ... Hey they got it! ... Hey also the data! ... Heyy the send me fre drives ! ... Hey not fucked up this time!

Usually there's a gas fill inside the drive as well.

Unless it's a noble gas filled disk like a helium one or something, it will operate at atmospheric pressure. Most disks include a small hole to equalise pressure inside and outside the drive. The head should float on a cushion of air formed by the disk spinning under it. Taking the lid off mostly just allows dust particles to get in (which is bad long term but not immediately fatal) and removes the Faraday cage effect of the casing. Drive recovery for failed disks often involves swapping platters or heads between open drives, and rarely occurs in a clean room - usually a kind of extractor hood to keep dust away is all that is needed/used.

That's complete bullshit

@@TheAssassin2299 No, that's only specific enterprise or server drives. Nearly all HDDs use just regular air, and have a breather hole to equalize pressure.

@@autumn5592 I have one 8TB Seagate E-Series enterprise/archive HDD and a regular 8TB Seagate Barracuda Expansion Drive which is why I say that about the helium fill. A 1TB or 500GB is also a completely different story due to the lack of multiple, multiple layers of platters that work overtime.

Good times

Slap desk next time, less chance of causing ... You cracked a platter Hell i saved a drive out of a 30°bent laptop out of a landfill that is working and you slapped a platter to break ? Are you one slap dude ?

You don't know your own strengths

@@jimmysmomschannel *Looks at hand with Pikachu face*

As soon as you open a hard drive its pretty much dead, doesn't matter if it's powered on or off

@@adamas_dragon that depends on the capacity and speed of the read/write speeds. Some hdd's work without air pressure, they just write about 40% less.

To fix it try using an SSD XD

@@xevelence1366 well the whole point of hard drives is that theyre cheaper for mass storage

I have a ticking hdd... can I use the magnet to fix it?

@@Joshua-br7mc no

@CognizantxNight drives are designed to let the read and write arm be pushed outwards by the rest movement of the platters in case of a power outage.

@@Em.P14 I saw a more in-depth video from "Warped Perception" (not some dumb TikTok video) that showed this same thing being done, and a power cycle resolved the issue. Not guaranteeing that would help, but I think it's pretty poor video editing and borderline misinformation to exclude that diagnostic step.

@@AlmondHoneyOats its tik tok, made to be as shitty as possible, i'm just here for giggles. man when you think about all the harddrives that gonna be wrecked by stupid advices from tik tok ... so sad, and yes it will be at least 1

This is probably meant as a joke but just in case: You can't solve this problem. At least not if your hard drive has a head crash like in this video

@@xevelence1366 my extra hard disk is stuck like that so that's why i wanted a solution ..

The hard drive gets half erased or currupted you can’t just restart the system

No.

Actually yes, the oxygen went in contact with the actual disk and broke it

@@alessioragonesi9277 Simply impossible. The drive is already filled with oxygen.

@@autumn5592 the dust did it tho

@@kitty.x3 Dust is not Oxygen. He claimed exposure to the very air damaged it. Nothing of dust.

@CognizantxNight I ran the magnet over both sides for a little while in a circular motion really trying to wipe the thing to no avail

Sterile? As in no bacteria? Germs kill HDDs???

@@autumn5592 No, dust does. Imagine a tiny piece of sand scraping across a disk rotating at *7200 RPM*.

@@privateger Not as damaging as you think. It won't instantly kill it, ho guarantee it will. The HDD has breather holes anyway, so dust can get in there too. It's not quite as bad as you're making out. Not to say your chances of damage aren't greater when removing the cover. It's just not as bad as everyone makes out.