How strong of a magnet do you need to "break" a macbook air?

jonajohnson3 · Nov 10, 2017

I was just wondering, I have searched and from the looks of it you need a magnet strong enough to pick up a car in order to ruin todays hard drives. Another question, do macs even use hard drives or ssd's? Plus when a magnet is put by the charging port you can hear something stop, a fan or something.

Corwin65 · Nov 10, 2017

So you're looking for help to vandalize a Macbook?

dark_lord69 · Nov 10, 2017

strong enough to pick up a car in order to ruin todays hard drives.
yeah that sounds about right...

I've heard from several other technicians that today's common magents don't have the power to do it. You'll typically need a powered (plug in) magnet.

Another question, do macs even use hard drives or ssd's?
Depends on the model.

USAFRet · Nov 10, 2017

jonajohnson3 :

I'm interested as to why you're looking for this info.

jonajohnson3 · Nov 10, 2017

They use ssd, they wont get affected by magnets. (noob research) My (school) macbook is model number a1369. In my chemistry class we are working with 1/2in wide neo magnets and the teacher said that one time a computer was broken because of a magnet. Like the next guy I disagreed and did a little research and ended up here.

USAFRet · Nov 10, 2017

jonajohnson3 :

A macbook air has an SSD.

Spinning hard drives already have a rare earth magnet on the inside. Drives going back 20 years.

Maybe that PC was broken, but it wasn't due a magnet on the HDD.

jonajohnson3 · Nov 10, 2017

Thanks for proving me right!

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