"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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