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Does a CRT monitor affect an external hard drive?

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Jack B

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Does the close proximity of a CRT monitor affect an external hard drive?


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Unknown

Flightless Bird
It may or may not. Depends on the quality of the CRT monitor AND the quality
of the external hard drive.
I.E. Proper shielding.
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"Jack B" <jslimp01nospam@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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My experimenting leads me to believe the chance of this happening are very
exagerated. If the HDD is in a meatal case no. If it's in a plastic case and
the monitor is defective or had shielding removed maybe over a very long
period of time. I wouldn't worry about it but on the other hand power of the
magnetism at 2" is 1/4 what it is at one inch. So if you have a little extra
room.......................
 
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