Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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 > > . >
I have had two CyberPower UPS's and been happy with them. Both still work but had to put in a set of batteries in the older one. Old one runs my TV during those frequent blinks we get here and the new one runs my puter. I usually catch them on sale for a little over $100 here. I want to get two more at some point. One for my Mom's TV and one for my sis-n-law's puter. Out of all the hard drives I have ever had, only one has failed. The smart software gave me enough warning to copy the stuff over. Maybe me having a UPS has helped on that. No way to prove it either way tho. Dale :-) :-)
