Will a microwave act as a faraday cage and protect my hard drive

only if it's running while the flares are happening to counteract nasa's sham sun energy.

>Nignog wants to put stolen phones in his microwave

>>62066265
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2ailgw/will_a_faraday_cage_protect_from_a_cmesolar_flare/
https://superuser.com/questions/1014071/how-to-protect-my-digital-data-from-solar-flares

tl;dr probably not

>>62066265
Yes-ish... there's always some leakage. You could probably build a better cage with some simple wooden frame and a copper wire mesh sheet stapled around it.

It's not that difficult. Google/youtube some howto's.

Not that your harddrives will be worth anything after said solar flare / EMP literally blows up everything you could potentially plug them into. In such a scenario the last thing you should be worrying about it is your porn collection.