▲ 91 ▼ LPT: Bring a magnet with you when picking out refrigerators (lemmy.world) submitted 1 month ago by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/lpt@lemmy.ca 35 comments fedilink hide all child comments I don't know if this is common knowledge, but not all refrigerators nowadays are magnetic. When going out shopping for one, bringing a small fridge magnet can help you easily rule some models out if you care about that.
[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (2 children) Elaborate please permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago It's a joke. Magnets mess with digital storage components. permalink fedilink source parent [–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children) Back when we still used HDDs they stored data magnetically and magnets would corruot your entire pc permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Yeah I thought this might actually be a pro tip :)) permalink fedilink source parent [–] clif@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* Back when? I upgraded my storage with a couple of 14TB drives ~2 years ago and HDD was the only answer. Doing a quick search, the largest SSD I can find at the moment is 8TB and they're well over $1,000 each. Also, there are crazy strong magnets inside of HDDs. I initially thought this is what the above was referring to since I use the magnets from old decommissioned HDDs to hold things to the fridge : D EDIT: I am weird though and prefer a desktop as my primary computing device... which doubles as a media server... in addition to my non-media server. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago It's a joke. Magnets mess with digital storage components. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children) Back when we still used HDDs they stored data magnetically and magnets would corruot your entire pc permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Yeah I thought this might actually be a pro tip :)) permalink fedilink source parent [–] clif@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* Back when? I upgraded my storage with a couple of 14TB drives ~2 years ago and HDD was the only answer. Doing a quick search, the largest SSD I can find at the moment is 8TB and they're well over $1,000 each. Also, there are crazy strong magnets inside of HDDs. I initially thought this is what the above was referring to since I use the magnets from old decommissioned HDDs to hold things to the fridge : D EDIT: I am weird though and prefer a desktop as my primary computing device... which doubles as a media server... in addition to my non-media server. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago Yeah I thought this might actually be a pro tip :)) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] clif@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago* Back when? I upgraded my storage with a couple of 14TB drives ~2 years ago and HDD was the only answer. Doing a quick search, the largest SSD I can find at the moment is 8TB and they're well over $1,000 each. Also, there are crazy strong magnets inside of HDDs. I initially thought this is what the above was referring to since I use the magnets from old decommissioned HDDs to hold things to the fridge : D EDIT: I am weird though and prefer a desktop as my primary computing device... which doubles as a media server... in addition to my non-media server. permalink fedilink source parent