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Do you have a UPS? If you do, how many times has it saved your equipment? What was the scenario? (en.wikipedia.org)
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My BX750MI-GR has saved my precious data on two occasions. Earlier this year, my seven year old, well used waffle iron shorted, popping loudly and sparking quite brightly in the process, probably because of all the gunk that had accumulated inside its less cleanable interior over the years. That not only made my breaker trip, but also blew the 16 amp main fuse. The UPS kicked in immediately, making a klick and a beep, which felt amazing. That was my first time ever.

As for the second time, see this post.
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[–] 7 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

I am considering getting one but power outages are pretty much unheard of, so it's not really a priority. So far it would have saved me 0 times.

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  • [–] 5 points 18 hours ago

    Pretty much same here. There was one time where street construction accidentally hit a cable, but considering how rare that is and how error resiliant most filesystems are nowadays, it's just not worth it getting a UPS.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 15 hours ago (3 children)

    I was thinking the same thing and would've done the same, i.e. not getting one, but then I started to seed torrents and I finally had an excuse to waste more money... I'm so fucking privileged it's not even funny.

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm considering it again ... at least UPS' aren't exploding in price like all the other hardware. And while I didn't have a power outage in 2 decades, I do have 11 very expensive HDDs spinning.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    I do have 11 very expensive HDDs spinning.

    I assume they were "grandfathered" into this era of murderous storage prices?

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  • [–] 2 points 13 hours ago*

    9 of them, yes but I was running low so I had to bite the bullet for the other 2.

    And yeah, I paid almost double the price for the exact same model compared to a few years earlier. And the original ones were new ... I settled for factory re-certified for the recent ones.

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