Is it safe to put an external drive on top of my desktop case near the hard drive?

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Published on 2010-04-21T13:55:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 14:03 UTC
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I'm really embarrassed to ask this question, but it would be more stupid to lose data over this.

Is it safe to place an external hard drive on top of my desktop case. I have a DVD/CD reader between the top of the case and the hard drive of the desktop. I know magnets and disk drives are not the best of friends, but are two disk drives in close proximity enough to mess each other up?

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