>I don’t know what happened for sure, but I think it may have been a power surge that fried the boards on both the Synology and the USB, as they were plugged in to the same socket.
He didn't have a surge protector? Sweet Jesus. I don't plug my backed-up PC into anything not surge protected.
He didn't have a surge protector? Sweet Jesus. I don't plug my backed-up PC into anything not surge protected.