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It depends on the humidity where you live, and what kind of clothes you wear, and if you're on a carpet or tile, or probably what you had for breakfast etc. I've had ESD fry a hard drive a RAM module, and maybe an SSD (or maybe it was bad firmware).

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Ahhh. I've never lived very far from the ocean, so it's always pretty humid. Plus, I've always had wood or concrete floors which limits static build up and wood or metal tables.

I suppose if you're in Arizona, static build up is a much bigger problem.

I'm in Arizona right now. I cuss out the static electricity about every other day, so, yes, around here I'd use an ESD wrist strap or something if I were going to handle DIMMs.

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