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Hard drives should not be adversly affected by the magnetic fields from a speaker too badly. The old floppy disk on the other hand is another story.

On the subject of shielding, well, for near field magnetic sources, absorption loss is the predominant sheilding mechanism, therefore you will need to use as your shielding material, something with a high relative permeability such as Mumetal. Mumetal shielding still starts to roll off below 1kHz but it's pretty much the best you can get. Steel can start to be effective for magnetic shielding only upwards of about 20kHz...

You wont likely enjoy the cost of Mumetal, especially since it it highly unlikely that you will suffer any data loss on your HDD.

Peace.

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FC3S

haha, well, better safe than sorry i suppose

then again i treat my hd's like *****, but still never had a problem,

MochaJunkie

Hard Drives are shielded. Very tough to hurt with magnets any more. I would be careful of the vibration from the sub. that could hurt a running hard drive by causing the heads to skip against the platter. At rpm this will cause divits and eventually bad blocks on the drive. Vibration can loosen cards. But the real Danger!!! Vibration can rattle screws loose. Screws that can fall against the motherboard or add in cards and cause shorts or fire. At one time I was tasked with building in flight entertainment servers for Boeing. They litteraly took my rackmount servers and shook the f**k out of them with a paint can shacker like device to simulate turbulence. They ended up having me locktite EVERY screw in the computer, including taking the power supply apart and covering all those screws.

Just Words Of Caution - Don't Try This At Home

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Dennis5587

wow, I went to find this thread to do some updates, and as it turns out someone already dug it up from the dead for me once before...

I ended up getting an EB01, and I am almost done fiberglassing my sub in the car, as well as built a new case for my computer.... However I'm not totally satisfied with the case for the computer, so I may end up fiberglassing it in as well, now that I know how.

I'll Have pics up later on today...

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Crzy_gtr_god3

Your build seems simple enough, how is the flip out monitor working for you?

i have a '95 chevy lumina with the 1.5 din, and am having trouble deciding how i want to mount a screen. i would like to do the same thing you did more or less because of ease of install, but i always hear about how the single din screens that flip out tend to get stuck or cease to work after a short while of usage.

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