Chemists from The University of Manchester and The Australian National University (ANU) have engineered a new type of ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the ...

You’ve heard it somewhere down the line: “Don’t put a magnet near your laptop, it will mess up the hard drive.” This is thanks to the popular tech legend that household magnets can ...

What about hard drives? ... "It is theoretically possible that an incredibly strong magnet can corrupt a hard drive if it is wiped directly over the surface of the drive," Matt explains, ...

Existing hard drives use magnets made of about 1 million atoms to store a single bit of data. Magnus Hagdorn Flickr ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets.

Magnetic box instantly wipes hard drives clean. Data Killer uses magnets to zap data on digital media. Diginfo TV. May 14, 2012, 1:40 PM EDT. By John Roach.

“Flash drives and SSDs are not really affected by a strong, static magnetic field,” according to Michael. The engineers at K&J actually tried to use neodymium magnets for hard drive ...

Want a magnet that is guaranteed to destroy a hard drive -- or for that matter, a CD/DVD drive? You need something like this 2-inch N52 neodymium disc magnet that has a pull force of approximately ...

In 2018, Google, hard disk drive manufacturer Seagate, and electronics refurbisher Recontext (formerly Teleplan) conducted a small demonstration project that involved removing the magnet ...

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have ...

My first desktop external desktop hard drive and I have had a good run together. But now it's six years old, it requires two adapters to plug into my computer, and it's gotten noisy with age. So ...