[BC] x-rays and hard drives

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:39 am, Lewis Munn wrote:
>P.S.  I CAN see where enough hard X-rays could scramble a CMOS memory and make a hard drive unusable.  Or a computer, for that matter.

 Well, X-ray IS ionizing radiation, and so is the UV used to erase CMOS EPROM's !

 Although destroying a drive controller is a different issue than obliterating
 the data magneticly recorded on the platers. 

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