Yep, he's right. It's a Redox Rxn. Those crazy electrons! haha, what the hell was that I just said. Alright -- the other thing that just popped into my head was if crystals and etc start to build up due to "hard water" and that whole thing, you can actually use a magnet. I know I know, magnets + HD's = bad --- so if it was really a problem, run some line away from the CPU -- use gravity to make it work