I have a device like this and it supports heavy gpu inside my pc. Wery usefull and nicly built thing made from metal. But the consern is it has a magnet on botom side, so it sticks to metal surfece inside the case. Wery usefull again but my hard disk is under that metal surfice. So i wonder can it corupt data or damage hdd itself…?!

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    10 days ago

    It’s always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren’t strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them. (Let’s also remember that fans containing magnets are often placed near hard drives.)

    If you’re concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a cut-down paper towel spool. The graphics card’s weight will probably hold it in place.

    In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives occasionally corrupt data and eventually die even when no magnets are around.

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      They aren’t strong enough to affect the data on a HDD if it were directly attached to the hard drive itself. It takes a pretty hefty magnet to do that.