UPS

[vetran]

You've obviously got your priorities right.

no his servers are toast

[CloudWalker]

Home use - overkill, UPS's are only needed for Business critical servers to allow you to do a safe power down.

[Contreras]

You've obviously got your priorities right.

But with a UPS he could still have toast during a power outage.

[Platypus]

Home use - overkill, UPS's are only needed for Business critical servers to allow you to do a safe power down.

I've seen critical servers get damaged with a power outage. Whether it holds family photos, supports a WFH business or something larger is irrelevant. If it's important, a UPS is not overkill.

[doodab]

The time that most server grade disks fail is when powering 'em back up, in my experience. That doesn't have to be a power cut, but when you do a proper shutdown and switch off as part of a hardware upgrade etc., some of them might not come back.

I suspect that's cos that's the only time they ever spin down and back up again. That seems to be bad for consumer grade drives as well.

[doodab]

I've seen critical servers get damaged with a power outage. Whether it holds family photos, supports a WFH business or something larger is irrelevant. If it's important, a UPS is not overkill.

I'm not going to lose any significant data unless something fries my SSD, my data drive, both of my backup drives and the copy of the family photos on the external drive at my parents house

It's more the minor irritation of losing a few minutes work that irked me and set me thinking. In this case excel had autosaved my invoice so it wasn't actually lost but on some occasions in the past I've had VMs get corrupted and refuse to boot which required rebuilding. That was before I became backup obsessed though, these days I'd lose a day's work at most and as I only work 4 or 6 hours a day on a good day it's not actually that much of a big deal.

[doodab]

The crappy toaster just took me out again.

[Platypus]

The crappy toaster just took me out again.

I though you'd ordered a new one? Didn't get Next Day delivery with Amazon? tut tut

[doodab]

I though you'd ordered a new one? Didn't get Next Day delivery with Amazon? tut tut

It's a birthday present from the in laws, they'll bring it down on Sunday.

[doodab]

Just had a look at the old toaster. One of the metal bits that moves up and down to pop the toast out is bent and shorting out on the heating element. That's cheap crap for you.