{"id":20891,"date":"2017-04-12T22:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20891"},"modified":"2017-04-12T22:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T22:21:08","slug":"computers-why-flash-drives-arent-vulnerable-to-magnets-supposedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computers-why-flash-drives-arent-vulnerable-to-magnets-supposedly\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers:  why flash drives aren&#8217;t vulnerable to magnets (supposedly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring, you see flash drives carried around with anything stored on them.  The tutor shares some findings about them in relation to magnetism.<\/h1>\n<p>I recall holding a flash drive with a magnetic lid, and wondering how it could be so.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, flash drives hold information using electric charges, rather than magnetism.  Two websites tell me that, for that reason, flash drives are not changeable by magnetism &#8211; at least, not under normal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetism and electricity are related.  Specifically, a changing magnetic field (for instance, as the magnet moves nearby) can cause voltage in a loop of wire.  Therefore, I wouldn&#8217;t experiment with a flash drive near a magnet if the data was important.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.machinedesign.com\/blog\/5-myths-surrounding-usb-flash-drives?utm_test=redirect&#038;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ca%2F\">beta.machinedesign.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/116572\/article.html\">www.pcworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring, you see flash drives carried around with anything stored on them. The tutor shares some findings about them in relation to magnetism. I recall holding a flash drive with a magnetic lid, and wondering how it could be so. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/computers-why-flash-drives-arent-vulnerable-to-magnets-supposedly\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Computers:  why flash drives aren&#8217;t vulnerable to magnets (supposedly)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,2142,1009,458],"tags":[2249,2248],"class_list":["post-20891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-computer-systems","category-home-computer-use","category-technology","tag-does-magnetism-affect-flash-memory","tag-magnetism-and-flash-drives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20899,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20891\/revisions\/20899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}