On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:54, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Anyway, the way I've always looked at the residential side of the UPS debate >> is to ask myself this question: Is it worth spending $100 to surge and >> power backup protect my $1000 PC and printer? For me that answer is an >> emphatic yes. > > You make a strong case. But I come from a different perspective than > you do. I don't have any new hardware at home. The only piece of > equipment I bought new was a 4-port Ethernet router which cost me about > $20, I think. Almost everything else was either given away or thrown > away or sold used for a low price. The most expensive computer I own > cost me somewhere around $300, I think. I bought it used 2 years ago, > and it's market value today is probably around $150-200. All my monitors > (with the exception of those built-in to laptops) are thrown-away CRTs. > In other words, my home hardware collection consists almost exclusively > of dumpster-diver specials. How much money am I willing to spend to > protect my hardware? Probably not as much as you are. Still, it would > be nice to have. Maybe I'll put it on my Christmas list. :-) > > Oh, wait. I did buy my powered speakers new -- about 15 years > ago. ;-)
For me, it is only partly about my hardware. It is also about my data. I have backups, but I didn't used to, and I would just as soon not have to go through a restore process. And even a simple power outage that wouldn't harm hardware might at least produce the need for a fsck (not as much of a problem with ext4, but again I would rather avoid the situation entirely). Furthermore most almost all power outages here are very brief, and I end up not having to shutdown at all, which is just pure convenience. For me, my Back-UPS XS 1000 was one of my best computer-related purchases. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2y1840f6971004291007xb13cdd63k17ced5dc429d...@mail.gmail.com
