On Thursday 15 Jun 2017 16:16:04 Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > > terminal damage to the onboard chipset controller. > > > > If you're lucky only partial corruption of the filesystem occurs and the > > USB disk can be used again. If you are very lucky and no I/O operations > > were being performed at the time the USB will suffer no damage. I try to > > remember to unmount the USB before I remove it, but I had to learn this > > the hard way. > This is the first I've heard of this. I have witnessed our staff at > working plugging something in and having static discharge fry a USB > stick, but I've never seen that happen while unplugging. > > I tell staff to touch the computer case before plugging it in first. > When a user fries one I asked if they touched the case first and the > answer is always "no". > > Dan
Yes, ESD can fry anything up, including you MoBo. I've damaged a CPU once because I was working on a nylon carpet without wearing a ESD wrist band. I thought I had earthed on the chassis at the time, but it seems I moved enough on the carpet to cause an ESD. :-( -- Regards, Mick
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