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Can I stick fridge magnets on my case?

EGGSonPC557

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May 12, 2015
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So to answer why Im not putting them on my fridge : I'm not sticking my fridge magnets on my fridge because it has a glass door and the magnets won't stick.

So Im wondering if I can stick some fridge magnets on the side just to decorate the case? ITs a Carbide 400C. As you can see, there is a little open space in the front of the case where there are some air fins which leaves a 3cm+ gap between the magnets and the interior of the case. Thanks! The magnets are of normal strength, but im not sure what their compounded effect might be.

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I'm most concerned about well just hardware health really. Thanks in advance!
 
Solution
I doubt those little magnets will do any harm at all - - it's really only the data on the hard drive (traditional one, not an SSD) which is sensitive to the effects of magnetism but I can't see even a handful of fridge magnets being powerful enough for that to happen, and even then they would have to be placed directly on to the drive casing itself to have any effect on it.
I doubt those little magnets will do any harm at all - - it's really only the data on the hard drive (traditional one, not an SSD) which is sensitive to the effects of magnetism but I can't see even a handful of fridge magnets being powerful enough for that to happen, and even then they would have to be placed directly on to the drive casing itself to have any effect on it.
 
Solution
Wouldn't stick them directly on the HDD or the HDD case

But somewhere on the side panel in the region of your CPU / GPU it shouldn't make any problems whatsoever

(They are usually to weak to harm your HDD anyway but it depends on the magnetic power of your specific magnets)