“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Hmm? What's that? I remember putting 200GB of important office documents on that external hard drive...
I hope you don't seriously think magnets this relatively weak would have any effect on data on the platter(s) of a modern hard drive.
A modern hard drive typically uses one or more neodymium magnets for the head actuator voice coil, and these rare earth magnets are quite powerful.
As long as you have given up on floppies (and perhaps Zip disks), your PC data in in little danger from magnets used in household applications.
it was a joke, jackass