| Howard Kaikow 2006-03-05, 5:49 pm |
| "Curious George" <cg@email.net> wrote in message
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> I don't follow. When you say glitch I'm thinking you mean a power
> sag, voltage running a little high, or outage. Those are common power
> glitches. They do not cause catastrophic loss on healthy hardware,
> esp when a quality UPS is involved.
>
> It sounds like you mean catastrophic surge. But even then a computer
> with good protection in a well wired building should still not be
> totally fried. UPS's generally have good surge protection and often
> some kind of line conditioning as well. What exactly am I missing?
A catastrophic surge can fry a drive. It does happen.
No UPS is 100% failsafe.
One must plan for the worst.
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