smchenry391
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I laid my ipod on top of a magnet about a week ago and i was wondering if anyone has ever had this problem, and if so how how much did it cost to repair it?
SourceThe 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."
Yes, you can safely use that case. Almost all magnets can pull metal out of dirt/sand but you have to really push them in there. The types of magnets that will erase data are about as round as a basketball and they are hooked up to electrical sources. You could put your iPod next to a 1000 watt subwoofer. It may stick and the heads in the hard drive may stick as well but the data on your iPod will be fine. So yeah, you can use the case.kylo4 said:So then it is definitely safe to use the magnetic Griffin Vizor case (reviewed here) with my 80GB iPod?
I have heard too that it has to be a mega magnet that does it, something to the effect of being able to pull metal out of the sand when its buried a bit.