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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them - |
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>>> alarmingly often, actually. |
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>> Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar levels of failure, and not just |
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>> drives,then I bought a UPS and things got much better. It seems the mains |
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>> supply here is not as stable as it should be. |
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> I do not, and I can't say I was terribly thrilled with the performance |
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> with the last cheap UPS I bought. |
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> The price to do it right tends to be moderately high, so it hasn't |
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> been a priority. Perhaps I should look into it again. |
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> Rich |
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I have had two CyberPower UPS's and been happy with them. Both still |
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work but had to put in a set of batteries in the older one. Old one |
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runs my TV during those frequent blinks we get here and the new one runs |
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my puter. I usually catch them on sale for a little over $100 here. I |
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want to get two more at some point. One for my Mom's TV and one for my |
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sis-n-law's puter. |
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Out of all the hard drives I have ever had, only one has failed. The |
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smart software gave me enough warning to copy the stuff over. Maybe me |
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having a UPS has helped on that. No way to prove it either way tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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