Securely erasing data from hard drives and other media
Those same small magnets are also great for finding needles in haystacks
Seriously though, you are of course right Flash, mechanical shock and magnets don't mix.
The hammer method is good if you no longer want/need a hard drive and want
to make sure that the data on it is not retrievable before disposing of it.
On the other hand if you want to reuse it (for yourself) a simply format will suffice.
By the way, those strong little magnets are made from Neodymium.
Here is an interesting link on how to get them and other uses for them.
http://www.dansdata.com/magnets.htm
Dave.
Seriously though, you are of course right Flash, mechanical shock and magnets don't mix.
The hammer method is good if you no longer want/need a hard drive and want
to make sure that the data on it is not retrievable before disposing of it.
On the other hand if you want to reuse it (for yourself) a simply format will suffice.
By the way, those strong little magnets are made from Neodymium.
Here is an interesting link on how to get them and other uses for them.
http://www.dansdata.com/magnets.htm
Dave.