On 08/03/2010 09:16 PM, snarlydwarf wrote: > Despite claims to the contrary, a decent UPS will protect you from most > events
To expand on this a bit, there are different types of UPS designs. The cheap ones switch "quickly", the better ones are called "line interactive" and always charge the battery and always run off the battery (not the mains). I hate APC the company, because they never say which kind their units are, but since they never state it, and the other vendors such as Tripp-Lite proudly advertise it for their more expensive units, I would bet money that all APC are just the cheapies. Often the cheapies are good enough, and help with short outages and some spikes. But if you want real protection, expect to spend twice as much as the BestBuy sold UPS units. > Many 'surge suppressors' suck: they are a simple MOV across the line > and the MOV has a limited lifetime and will give no warning when it has > used up its useful life. The limited life, and silent death of MOV is never talked about. Just when you need it, its gone. Its an interesting economic decision, a good USP can cost more than the rest of an inexpensive PC, suitable to use as a music server. It may make more sense to just have a backup copy of your music and assume that the server is expendable. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
