Homelab

371 readers

3 users here now

Rules

Be Civil.
Post about your homelab, discussion of your homelab, questions you may have, or general discussion about transition your skill from the homelab to the workplace.
No memes or potato images.
We love detailed homelab builds, especially network diagrams!
Report any posts that you feel should be brought to our attention.
Please no shitposting or blogspam.
No Referral Linking.
Keep piracy discussion off of this community

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

rglullis

Thoughts on 2nd hand purchases and their packing (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Mastasmoker@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I recently purchased a cisco 48 port poe switch and a 4 port 10gb fiber network card for it, separate ebay purchases, and neither had anti static bags. They were both wrapped in bubble wrap but the switch came within Styrofoam packing peanuts. The styrofoam packing peanuts always have a great deal of static buildup.

What are your thoughts on this? Am I just being paranoid about potential static discharge with items being wrapped in bubble wrap only and no anti static bag?

I look forward to everyone else's thoughts. Hoping I'm just being paranoid and that it's perfectly fine.

Note: the items booted up fine.

Thanks

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ticktocktoe@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I can't say I've ever had second hand electronic devices (devices like a switch...not components like RAM, HDDs, GPU) shipped wrapped in anti-static bags. Completely unnecessary imo. The card, as it's a component, may have been nice to have in a bag, but if it was cheap-ish, I wouldn't really care.

Anecdotally, I've been working with electronics for decades, never using any of those grounding bracelets, or anti static mats. And never once had a problem. Could static cause damage...yeah, probably, but there is a far far greater risk of physical damage than from static.