Re: When Your Home Server Dies - a UPS Review

[mal@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I've had one since losing a server drive to a power cut.  Had no
problems since - I even run my main PC off it too (although that puts
the battery time down to 5 minutes!)

At work we have a UPS on every PC (all 300 of them!).  This is the
first place I've worked that has had them, and is a legacy of the
company origins in a rural location with an extremely flaky supply.
It''s saved us quite a few times though.

I've also considered getting one for the A/V gear.  During the
winter snows we had more than 20 power cuts in one evening, and
that's a real pain in the ass if you have to wait for everything to
start up (plus the interminable wait for a blu-ray disk to get to the
first menu).  I borrowd the server UPS for  the TV that night to good
effect :-)

Mal
On Wed 5/05/10 8:59 AM , Mark McCall lists@xxxxxxx sent:
A few days ago we had a 27 minute power outage during a lightning
storm near the Automated Home. Not an unusual occurrence in itself -
but this one was to be more significant. After a few days of wailing
and nashing of teeth here are the lessons learnt and why we now have
an in-expensive but effective UPS on our server...
http://bit.ly/9fKoYo [1]
M.


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