you know if it has been damaged if it doesn't behave normally or if it doesn't work at all. It's not that likely that you'll kill a stick of RAM for example, Linus tested that together with ElectroBoom and they could only kill the stick of RAM by directly holding their ESD gun to a data line, but they couldn't kill it by charging them with that gun and then picking the stick up. I have for example zapped my laptop a few times accidentally and it still works perfectly fine
#ESD on Hardwares
hollow epoch
ESD builds up if two certain materials rub against each other. for example rubber shoes and carpet will build up ESD if you walk
crude nimbus
The CPU is especially vulnerable as it has a lot of contact area and even a few volts of esd can kill it
My only experience with was is dropping a hard drive on carpet, it broke.
hollow epoch
Well that probably broke more because of the drop, and not because of static, because metal on carpet won't build up static electricity, as it's parallel to the carpet, ther's nowhere for it to flow unless you touch it
crude nimbus
Well that probably broke more because of the drop, and not because of static, be...
No, believe me it was a drop from 20cm. I then forgot about the drive and left it there for 2 weeks