On Tue July 27 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'd also like to add that anyone smart enough to be on this list is smart > enough to know you should have a UPS, regardless of what filesystem you > use. If you're not you shouldn't be here. If you disagree on the technical > merits (not cost), you're uneducated and/or stubborn. If you disagree on a > cost basis, your data isn't valuable, period. A decent low end UPS for a > desktop system that will get you through all brown outs and far enough > through a storm outage (15-30 minutes) to do a proper shutdown costs about > $50 USD. That's less than a carton of cigarettes in New York City, less > than 3 regular price large pizzas at Dominos, and $25 less than a tank of > gas for a full size pickup, which would last most people one week of > commute. The cost of one tank of gas for 3-5 years of power protection > before needing a battery replacement.
this is something that I preach to EVERYONE who has a computer. Some people don't understand that I leave my computer plugged in & running 24/7. they give me a deer-in-the-headlights look when I tell them I don't turn my computer off. But I live in Georgia, home of MASSIVE thunderstorms. I also live at the end of a street with 110 foot tall oak & pine trees along side the road, and right next to our electric poles. In 5 years we have had 3 trees drop on wires & cause loss of power, and I've had up to 20+ entries in the apcupsd.log file in ONE day, from thunder boomers. I have THREE UPSes in my house, not just my PC, but ALL electronic equipment, TV, stero AND Dish satellite receiver. I would NEVER plug anything electronic in, in MY house WITHOUT an UPS. > > I guess I should evangelize UPS as much as XFS given the benefits. Except > XFS is free. ;) UPSes are really cheap and EXCELLENT insurance for not only your hardware, but your DATA. I won't even mention a company, and I DON'T work for them! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007271342.01889.deb...@pcartwright.com
