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Of what quality was the mobo? I thought the higher-end stuff typically has power protection.


ServalWS B450. Was not at all amused. Oddest bloody thing, because had a pair of Samsung EVO's M.2 NVMes in there, and it still managed to let the magic smoke out.

CPU/GPU and RAM lived, but the corruption of the drives (even if the data was largely recoverable) and rendering of them as inviable to further writes really took me by surprise.

That combined with the way the HDD just did not care one lick despite apparently, just illustrated for me a difference in tolerance to operating conditions that I'd not had the chance to witness first hand yet.

Just figured I'd share while we were talking about SSD weirdness and firmware nonsense.




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