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09/26/2003 03:37:06 PM · #1 |
BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
I don't think it can be said enough. I went to work to make a few pizzas for a school's lunch program, computer working fine. I come home from lunch and computer is unresponsive. Try to reboot....Nothing.
You don't wanna know all the lovely things that came out of my mouth for most of rest of day. To make a long (horrible, ugly, scarie) story short, my secondary hard drive failed. Lucky for me no important pictures on it. Didn't make me feel none to safe about the rest though! (they are now safely backed up on CD)
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09/26/2003 03:51:43 PM · #2 |
This probably had nothing to do with it, but it's something most people aren't aware of. If you have your computer on a surger protector, it's still not safe from a meltdown of components due to a power surge. This is because of power sags (the opposite of spikes). When the electrical voltage to a computer power supply is reduced due to a sag, the power supply's components overwork to compensate and in a sense creates it's on spikes throughout the computer system. Most of the time this goes unnotice, but where I work the power isn't too steady and we seem to have a problem every 3 or 4 months. The worse we had was everything but the processor burning out in one computer. Typically we'll lose hard drives and of course the power supply which melts. The biggest cause of these problems is the turning on of large mechanical units or large banks of florescent light fixtures.
So, if you want complete protection from the power, you'd have to get a UPS instead of a surge protector.
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09/26/2003 04:12:16 PM · #3 |
| sorry about your meltdown toocool. Like I always say.....back up early, back up often |
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09/26/2003 04:16:13 PM · #4 |
| a ups has a line conditioner in it. It will stop over voltages (spikes), and the batteries keep the under voltages (sags) at bay. You should get on that is rated (in watts) more then your power supply. |
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