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

  • ProbablyAKitteh@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The one time I didn’t package a box of drives myself, I put them in antistatic with whatever bubble wrap I had. I told UPS exactly how I wanted it packed, they did the bare minimum then threw it into a way too big box with no filler.

    That’s the last time I allowed UPS to package anything for me. Thankfully they still worked and lived a hopefully long life, but I was PISSED.