[Discuss] NTFS Hard Drive Failing?

[Patrick]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:25:29 -0800
brendan wrote:

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> should you feel like destroying your hard drive, take it apart and grab the rare earth magnets from inside.

Oooh, right on.  :-)  I have some pretty strong fridge magnets
already [usually have to slide one past a corner to remove it].
No failing drives at the moment, but that's something to keep in
mind.  Thanks.

> they are very fun - newer drives don't have huge magnets like the old ones did, but they are still quite strong.

I kind of hope my ancient Mac doesn't die anytime soon [it'll be
20yrs old next June -- 2015, not 1014], but again, something to
keep in mind.  Its SCSI drives aren't much smaller than a Sony
Walkman, if anyone remembers what those are.



Cheers,

Patrick.
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