On Apr 1, 2004, at 9:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Surge protector vs UPS... This is a religious argument. Some people (like me) swear by surge protectors. Love 'em. Some people love UPS. My beef with UPS is that they prevent even the tiny surges from hitting your hardware. This means that components that have become marginal are protected from normal failure. Then, when something big fails, the power disruption within the machine causes all of the marginal parts to fail also. Debugging multiple failures can be an expensive PITA.
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What gob-smackingly bad advice!!!
I told you it was a religious argument. :)
Trust the people who work with hundreds and hundreds of computers in a lightning and brownout prone area like hot southern Arizona in the summertime.[snip]
Ah. So you live in an area that has a bad power source. AND you have a server farm. AND a fully paid maintenance staff and/or contracts... So you've made my point - using UPS is appropriate for you.
Non-ups protected systems have a far higher incidence of failure.
And UPS protected systems cost much more to repair, in both labour and parts, due to the cascade failure issue. Individual hobbiests, such as the folx on these low-end mailing lists cannot aford your big-time maintenance plan. If we could, we'd all have Power Mac G5s.
If your surge protector is more than 12 months old, has been through a summer of thunderstorms, then it's probably worthless and is only good as a source of extra outlets.
That's simply not true.
- Dan.
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