Has anyone ever had problems with large pumps around hard drives?

[BobSassafrass]

I see how my l35 makes my monitor shake by being closer than a foot away, has anyone ever lost data due to the magnetism from a large pump?

[Cathar]

Impossible for it it do so. The magnetic fields emanating from a pump would have to be strong enough to move any ferro-magnetic item not nailed down within about 3 feet of the pump before it even begins to have a hope of damaging data stored on a HDD.

Ever pulled open a dead HDD and noticed the two extremely strong disk head actuator rare-earth magnets sitting not more than 5mm away from the disk platter - all without a remote chance of harm to the data stored on the disk.

[ZachM]

Ever pulled open a dead HDD and noticed the two extremely strong disk head actuator rare-earth magnets sitting not more than 5mm away from the disk platter

Yes, and I have also seen one hold onto a ~15Lb broad sword in the air. :eek:

[BobSassafrass]

well thats good to know, i have seen stranger things happen though, like a magnet interfering with the actuators or the spindle motors on the underside of the hard drive. i suppose its not so much the platters i would worry about. but it seems to make since to me, thanks for the input :)
oh and you guys do some awesome work cathar keep it up!

[=ACID RAIN=]

The only time I've seen issues with metal and hard drives was on this window mod I did on a couple of hard drives. If you got even neutral metal near the coil, it would park and reset. Kinda funny to see, probably not so funny to the drive ;). But when properly shielded (the manufacturer's top is still on in other words), there is no way a pump or most household items will interfere.

I have a bunch of those hard drive magnets on my fridge. Wife loves them, they can hold a book to the fridge if you want them too :)

[Aphex_Tom_9]

i have an L30 sitting right under my HD bay, has been for a few months now, and i had an l20 pretty close for even longer, never the slightest bit of corruption

[BobSassafrass]

awesome guys! thanks for answering :)

[Sneaky]

i have a Laing D4 pump sitting in my HD cage right next to my Maxtor 120

no problems whatsoever