On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:

> A big magnet simply doesn't work. Years ago I had a friend that put an
> old hard drive on a bulk tape eraser at the radio station. This thing
> would erase a whole tape reel with one zap. Didn't do a thing to the
> hard drive. Everything was still readable.

This seems reasonable to me. The idea that it would render a HD  
"unusable" I doubt.


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