Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables

Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables by klausa on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:44AM (#49656195)

Have you ever had anything go wrong that you could attribute to storing cables like this?

I understand the theoretical concerns here, but it feels like an overkill in real world situations.

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Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables by ButlerianJihad on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:11AM (#49752232)

I could offer some "anecdata of one" and describe my home environment, and narrate a few incidents, and I could explain the other precautions I've taken, according to the disciplines of my family's background. But what good is that?

If I do not own a scanning electron microscope, and if I cannot pair that microscope with comparable images of the circuitry when it was 100% healthy, I really wouldn't be able to tell ya the root cause of malfunction in SODIMMs, SSDs, mainboards, or sdcards or smart-cables. ESD is a silent and invisible killer of electronics. Prevention is its best cure, IMHO.

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