On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them - >> alarmingly often, actually. > > Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar levels of failure, and not just > drives,then I bought a UPS and things got much better. It seems the mains > supply here is not as stable as it should be.
I do not, and I can't say I was terribly thrilled with the performance with the last cheap UPS I bought. The price to do it right tends to be moderately high, so it hasn't been a priority. Perhaps I should look into it again. Rich