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Ok, I'll be that guy. Let's stay with power supplies. How do you "never assume"? Send to a lab? dump all MCU code? Say you buy USB-C brick. How do you test tha
by 112233 3y ago
Ok, I'll be that guy. Let's stay with power supplies. How do you "never assume"? Send to a lab? dump all MCU code?
Say you buy USB-C brick. How do you test that is outputs correct 9V/12V when PD or PPS requests it? Do you inspect it with thermal camera under max rated load?
World cannot function if every fault is blamed to lack of due diligence by end user
- djmips 3y agoWhen getting a new part, just have that conversation with the supplier that it's good to plug in with the cables you have. Of course this is on EVGA and I'm not saying this isn't lack of due diligence but being paranoid might have helped this guy keep his data and he'd have an extra paper trail.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThat conversation did happen, in instruction form. There is no reasonable test that would have saved him. The new supply even had the same model number!
- djmips 3y agoAfter reading your comment I went directly to Reddit and this was a lot more clear. The original article didn't get that point across as clearly. https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bilja1/egva_power_supply_pin_layout_change_featuring/ https://reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1bilja1/egva_power... But in any case, I was never blaming the guy. I'm sure I would have blown up my SATA drives in exactly the same way. I'm only saying that from now on, the paranoid, like me will always check the voltages on a new power supply output pins before I use them. He did actually check them after he realized the problem. It doesn't take long to check. You don't need to send it out to a lab as was suggested.