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By Terry Stockdale
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply?
Do I Need an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)? I’m beginning to think that I really do…
For a lot of years, I kept UPS’s supplying power to all of my family’s computers. I was concerned over power outages and their impacts on the data structure on my hard drives.
I wasn’t concerned with power outages causing damage to the computers themselves, or even to the physical hard drives. I was concerned over the possibility of data corruption, especially if the computer was writing to the drive’s data structure table at the time the power went
out.
In those days, I ran Norton Utilities on my computers and let them automatically defragment during the night on one nights a week. For my home theater PC, not only did I let it defragment twice a week during the night, I also wanted to give it a chance to keep running through a short power outage.
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