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Common causes of data loss around Plymouth

Minnesota winters are long, cold, and very dry indoors, which makes static shocks easy to generate just by walking across carpet. Static can damage the electronics on a bare hard drive or an SSD controller. Devices carried in from a car at well below zero also collect condensation when they meet warm indoor air. Let laptops and cameras warm up in their bag before powering them on, touch something grounded before handling drives, and run a humidifier in the room where you work on computer hardware.

Summer brings severe thunderstorms with hail, damaging winds, and occasional tornado warnings across the western Twin Cities suburbs, along with lightning-related outages and surges. Plymouth's many lakes and wetlands, Medicine Lake among them, also mean phones and cameras end up in the water every boating season, and heavy rain can seep into basements where home offices are often set up. Keep desktops and NAS units on a UPS, store electronics off basement floors, and use a waterproof case for any device you take out on a lake.

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