Question: I would like to carry the notebook computer around, together with the ear-bud headphones and the cell phone. ?But since ear-bud headphones have magnets into it, can’t it affect the notebook’s hard drive?
I think cellphone is more common for people to carry around with their notebook, except cellphone is usually in the pants’ pocket or on the belt on the waist…
Answer: Hard drives themselves have some of the more powerful magnets available to control the read-write head and are completely impervious to anything you could set on them.
See this article from PCWorld busting PC myths:http://www.pcworld.com/article/116572/busting_the_biggest_pc_myths.html
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The only magnets powerful enough to ?scrub data from a drive platter are ?laboratory degaussers or those used by ?government agencies to wipe bits off ?media. “In the real world, people are ?not losing data from magnets,” says ?Bill Rudock, a tech-support engineer ?with hard-drive maker Seagate. “In ?every disk,” notes Rudock, “there’s ?one heck of a magnet that swings the ?head.”
And as far as flash drives/cards go:
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A magnet powerful enough to disturb ?the electrons in flash would be ?powerful enough to suck the iron out ?of your blood cells
You can see the magnets in a hard drive as a large silver piece screwed down on the other side of the read-write head on this page: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk6.htm