<span>If you put a magnet right next to a USB drive, depending on the strength of the magnet and the amount of steel, nickel or cobalt used in the construction of that particular model of USB drive, the drive would either adhere to, or not adhere to, the magnet. This would cause no other significant effects. The storage of data in solid state form (as in USB drives) is not magnetic in nature, so no deletion or any other damage of the stored data would occur.</span>
        
                    
             
        
        
        
1) The equivalent resistance of two resistors in parallel is given by:

so in our problem we have

and the equivalent resistance is

2) If we have a battery of 12 V connected to the circuit, the current in the circuit will be given by Ohm's law, therefore:
 
 
        
        
        
To solve this problem we will apply the concepts related to the Magnetic Force, this is given by the product between the current, the body length, the magnetic field and the angle between the force and the magnetic field, mathematically that is,

Here,
I = Current
L = Length
B = Magnetic Field
 = Angle between Force and Magnetic Field
 = Angle between Force and Magnetic Field
But 

Rearranging to find the Magnetic Field,

Here the force per unit length,

Replacing with our values,


Therefore the magnitude of the magnetic field in the region through which the current passes is 0.0078T