Testing The Power Supply

You are correct, but that has nothing to do with my point.

The basic fact is that to prevent data loss by power failure (i.e. the question at hand), you keep the power to the computer, provide adequate warning and safe shut down procedures. All built into the commercial UPSs he could purchase. They aren't called Uninteruptable Power Supplys (UPS) for a nothing.

My previous post is logical and available.
 
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bigfellla said:
Are you shitting me? :eek: :( A power supply failure can cause catastrophic hardware failures in other components. That means, ram, gpu, cpu etc trashed.


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Come on you're getting the guy more paranoid. But I think it'll really won't fry the hard drive that fast wouldn't it?
Also ain't UPS just a source that regulates the power to the PSU? So even the PSU fails it won't do anything to help the boards system right?
 
A UPS will power the PSU if your mains house voltage fails, however the OP was asking about a PSU failure in which case the UPS would do no good at all.
If the PSU went open circuit then even the UPS could'nt bypass that to power the computer.
To the OP, just do whatever you can by regular backups. Some things are impossible for the "average Joe" to protect 100%.
 
I'm not that worried about the CPU, RAM, MOBO, ect, failing. I'm just worried about the drive failing and becoming corrupted. I have a backup drive that isn't plugged in, but it's 373GB large, and I don't know if my drive is using 441GB, or what, because I'm not sure if it's a full backup. I used Acronis.
 
Well like other's solution. Buy an external storage so that your won't have to worry on files being lost because of short circuit.
 
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