joeyh

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Is it possible for an SSD to be destroyed by a semi-close lightning strike? Cause mine seems to have been. :( Or possibly by high humidity, but that seems unlikely.

Putting the dead SSD in a external USB reader, I get
"over voltage" messages from the kernel.
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Oh, I hadn't thought of that problem. (Embarassing, as I'm from Tampa and have had an unplugged computer killed by lightning.) I very much suspect that it is possible if plugged in and running; many voltage regulators are as cheap as they can be. I doubt it if not plugged in; passing by a refrigerator when it cycles likely would kill 'em if that sensitive.

Unless you're being treated for burns from the strike. That would be a tad closer than I am considering.

jasonriedy@fmrl.me at 2014-06-30T19:14:43Z

In this case it was not plugged in, but suspended. The SSD case does warn that ESD can damage it.

joeyh at 2014-06-30T19:16:37Z

Remembering how not-very-close strikes would make my braces more-than-tingle once upon a time, very much could be. Crap. Very unfortunate failure mode for things popular in mobile devices.

jasonriedy@fmrl.me at 2014-06-30T19:29:48Z

If it was connected to some kind of "main" power (ie, not on batteries) yes, it might have been burnt by a close lightning. And if that's the case I would also suspect on the rest of the hardware too.

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer at 2014-06-30T21:03:12Z