Sumiko

I have one. I wasn't asking what to buy instead of an ESD-safe vacuum.

Hello~ I just did a bit of looking around at ESD-safe vacuum cleaners and, since they're quite expensive compared to any conventional vacuum cleaner, I was thinking of trying to mod my existing vacuum cleaner so that its tube and accessories are ESD-safe. From my understanding, ESD-safe vacuums use materials that inhibit "triboelectric charging", which causes the friction of air and debris moving through the tubes to generate a charge. Wouldn't I then just be able to make (or have made for me) a custom tube and set of accessories for a conventional vacuum cleaner made from materials that inhibit the charge just the same as an ESD-safe vacuum cleaner? If anyone has any insight on this and/or the materials such vacuum cleaners use, please let me know. ^^ - Sumiko

I'm planning to build a compact Mini-ITX system with a top end Asus motherboard that has an M.2 slot with which I could use Asus's Hyper Kit M.2 to Mini SAS HD adapter. What I'm wanting to know specifically is if I can use that to hook up a SAS hard drive, like an Xe series drive from Western Digital. If anyone has any productive input, please let me know. ^^

@Captain_WD You mentioned that WD is not currently producing SAS drives, which would include the Xe drive line. I've been wanting to get a couple of Xe series drives for Raid 0 high speed storage with a separate Raid 1 backup, but I'm not sure which Xe drive model is the most recent version. Should I look to get the Xe WD3001HKHG? Should I instead look for a more recent product from perhaps a different manufacturer?