Removing rare earth magnet from hard drive backing plate

Making a homebrew stir plate. I needed one of these magnets. Mine came off pretty easily using this method. I retrieved two magnets from an old hard drive.

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Education

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• donosborn
• homebrew

[MonsterrEnergyy]

For educational purposes only, does this remove ink sensors in stores? This will give me an idea of how strong they are.

[donosborn]

@MonsterrEnergyy I have no idea.

[corvardus]

Sweet. I did wonder how to do it since I tried everything but bruteforce tends not to work where computers were concerned so I didn't consider bending it. Now I have my magnets!

[donosborn]

@corvardus sweet, this video actually helped someone. :) 

[lilgurby]

are these only in the new solid state drives?

[donosborn]

@lilgurby No. In fact, I don't know if those drives even have magnets like this. Find yourself a junked computer with any old IDE drive and it should have something like this in it. good luck.

[moby2727]

i have that same magnet and it made my finger black and blue

[CRFbadass]

@MonsterrEnergyy "For educational purpose only" LOL! I call bullshit ;)

[zdrgdr]

thanks that was very helpful

[chaeairsoft]

i used a sharp knife to pry mine off and it slipped and went strait into my finer leaving a badd cut (:

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

@MonsterrEnergyy

Ink sensors in stores? What's that?

[starshock01]

@MonsterrEnergyy stealing is wrong, there is no other reason why you would ask that since magnet strength is never referred to in such a manner

[GordoB91]

@lilgurby Nope. Solid State drives dont have any magnets or moving parts. they are based on the same technology as USB storage devices (or memory cards)