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playafly187
10-09-2004, 08:09 PM
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Caj Darkmoon
10-09-2004, 08:43 PM
Nope. Surge protector's it.
techniq
10-10-2004, 03:33 PM
I bought one cheap (at cost) when I worked at Best Buy. Its been handy a few times, mainly only for flickers, but its great when we blow a breaker at our LANs and only me and the few on laptops are still running.
SlipSand
10-10-2004, 03:59 PM
No need for one. Cost for inconvenience? No way.
undergroundtech
10-10-2004, 10:44 PM
Not yet, but it’s on my list of things to get.
On my block the power seems to go out for a sec. every time it rains or the wind blows. The clocks have to all be reset, prolly once every 2 or 3 days.
silenze
10-11-2004, 12:46 AM
Surge protector at home... the whole 9 yards at work....
playafly187
10-11-2004, 10:55 AM
I will be purchasing one soon. Had a few power outages here at school so far this year; one that almost resulted in the loss of my stored emails in Outlook... :(
KryoNexus
10-11-2004, 12:54 PM
No need for one. Cost for inconvenience? No way.

Well worth it to save Data. Plus repeated power outages kill hard drives, power supplies and can be hard on other components as well.
ViperX883
10-13-2004, 01:32 PM
I don't use one... I have two different backup copies of my important data stored on separate disks. I also have a regular surge protector to avoid damage from power surges, If somehow all of that data still manages to get lost despite these precautions, well, then maybe it's a sign that I shouldn't have had the data in the first place.
techniq
10-13-2004, 11:11 PM
UPS are not for archived/stored data as they are for data 'in use'. If you happen not to save every 5 minutes and the power goes out, then your up a creek when the power flickers/goes out. Also, if you were saving (not so common on small files, but think of 100+ meg photoshop/etc files) and the power goes out, you run a high risk of just waxing your saved file as well (only saved it partially, etc). While most apps have an autosave/autorecover feature, not all do.
Caj Darkmoon
10-14-2004, 07:31 AM
Personally I prefer FedEx... oh... wait.
undergroundtech
10-14-2004, 07:43 AM
Personally I prefer FedEx... oh... wait.


WTF? :?
Caj Darkmoon
10-14-2004, 01:09 PM
Personally I prefer FedEx... oh... wait.


WTF? :?

UPS... FedEx...

Package shipping companies...
SlipSand
10-14-2004, 08:53 PM
lol I thought that at first. I wasnt fond of UPS' then I was like ohhh. Thats right.
Computer Needs Canada
12-18-2004, 09:04 AM
yes i will be geting one soon
SlipSand
12-18-2004, 12:01 PM
Necromancer... :eat this:
Hardware Hazard
12-20-2004, 02:39 AM
Personally I prefer FedEx... oh... wait.


WTF? :?

UPS... FedEx...

Package shipping companies...

I read the poll thing and imediatly thought of the shiping companies .... UPS never delivers my crap on time so I would go with anything else ... but then I read the posts and i figured out that is not wut u guys mean ....

So WTF is a UPS ....
KryoNexus
12-20-2004, 08:28 AM
Uninteruptible Power Source......aka a Battery Backup.
Beemer
12-20-2004, 09:11 AM
I wouldnt mind having a UPS, my need for one just doesnt merit going out and buying one right now. It makes a great little insurace policy but I like to live dangerously every once in a while. If I did purchase a UPS I would make sure that I got UPS to ship it :rimshot:
SAMSAMHA
12-20-2004, 12:46 PM
i got one that will support like 10~15min of power in case of outage, enough for me to save files during the outage and shut the system down.
T-shirt
12-20-2004, 02:01 PM
One for each computer and hoping santa brings one more for the cordless phone/network stack (cable modem, VoIP router, lan router) and hopefully soon wlan and laptop
Hardware Hazard
12-20-2004, 11:21 PM
Now that i know what it is it would be cool to have one, considering all the black outs i get in my area.