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mvsfan:
The main and only reason most people just dont worry about it is cause almost all store bought as well as homebuilt PCs have a metal case thus its not an issue.

it only becomes an issue when someone is building an uncased pc thats destined to reside inside of a mame cabinet.

if you want to just stick a pc case and all in your cabinet its not an issue at all.

if your one of the people like me who feels that it lends a great deal of authenticy to open a cabinet to show someone and they see nothing but circuit boards, the botom line is that that is where and when monitor interference does become an issue.

DJ_Izumi:
Wow, spam much?

telengard:
I've had no issues w/ degaussing and I do it a lot (rotating monitor).

Now my speakers making noise when copying files over the wireless network adapter, that's another story...

~telengard

Beretta:
like mvs said a steal plate will dampin the magnetic field considerably.. so inside the typical pc case it's pretty well protected.

the hdd's housing it self is usually aluminum.

i'd say if you got a foot or so distance it should'nt be a issue.. but if you wanna be on teh safe side either put a plate between the monitor and the hdd or use a case in teh cabinet.

in a upright i dont think it's a issue.. in a cocktial i'd just put a plate or build a cage out of sheet metal for the hdd..

you could also look at things like soldstate or flash drives, or self booting cd/dvd instead of using magnetic hdd.

i have a server cobbled out of spare junk parts using BTX form factor.. not having a case i mounted it on a piece of scrap wood..

a 21 inch crt monitor sits about 2 feet away, also roughly 18 inches above it is also a large box fan in a open window..

it's been operating this way for roughly 5 years on the same OS install, no corruption yet.

they are more resilient then you might expect and unless it's making love to the monitor i dont think it will be a issue.

DJ_Izumi:
Same thing, I have a pair of P1110's sitting 3 inches away from my tower that has the case sides removed.  These things are strong enough that when one powers on from cold, it'll degause the one next to it in the process. :D

But heck, most PCs have a PC speaker INSIDE the case which presents more of a magnetic field at closer range to your PC guts than a monitor ever will.

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