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Went from a power strip to a proper UPS. Night and day difference.
Had a client with a small office. Old power strip setup. Surge took out their server last Tuesday. Lost 3 days of work. Swapped them to a CyberPower unit with battery backup. Next day another surge happened. UPS kicked in. Kept everything running. That basic power strip was $12. The UPS was $150. Worth every penny. Anyone else see people cheap out on power protection?
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cora81316d ago
Just a surge protector? After seeing what a direct hit does I can't believe people still trust those things. Had a guy bring his motherboard in last month, looked like someone took a soldering iron to the traces. Said he had a "heavy duty" surge strip. Told me it was $40 at the hardware store. I just shook my head. That extra hundred bucks would have saved his whole machine plus the data on the drive. The battery backup isn't just about keeping things on during a blink, it's the clean power that actually filters stuff. Those cheap strips just die and take your gear with them half the time.
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hernandez.gavin16d ago
Man that motherboard story is brutal. So here's what I don't get. Why do people think a $40 surge strip is the same as a proper UPS? It's not just about the battery. The filtering matters a ton. Your buddy with the fried home server probably had a nice build too. Did he lose his entire storage array or just the one drive? I always tell people that if you care about your data at all, you skip the fancy power strip and buy something with real protection. The difference is night and day like you said.
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ray56216d ago
Watched my buddy's home server fry during a storm because he thought a surge protector was enough.
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For real though I used to be one of those people. I had a decent gaming PC for years running on nothing but a $30 surge protector and thought I was being smart. Then a buddy of mine lost his whole NAS array during a thunderstorm. All his family photos, his media library, years of stuff just gone because the surge protector did nothing. That was the moment it clicked for me. Now I won't even run a Raspberry Pi without a proper UPS in between it and the wall.
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