Monster900
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Just an open question really. The focus here seems to be, quite rightly, on protecting the data. There seems to be little discussion on protecting the equipment that stores the data.
I have recently re-purposed an old, low power consumption PC to act as a dual purpose machine NAS (RAID 1) and PC which is located in the garage. The now superseded Zyxel NSA310 was protected by an APC Back-UPS in the office, but I was concerned about storing data on the unprotected machine in the garage. I was pretty unsure what to do, but eventually decided to buy a UPS for the the NAS/PC in the garage. The only thing that bothers me is that the UPS probably uses at least as much electricity as the NAS/PC, equivalent to about £27 per year.
On the other hand, in the month that the UPS has been installed, there have been two power cuts each lasting about 20s, the first within 24 hours of putting it in and the second about two weeks later. Where I live this is not an uncommon event. In the winter longer power cuts often happen as well, so maybe £27 p.a. is just the price I have to pay for data security where I live. It may be worth mentioning, before the 'RAID is not backup' cries kick in, that critical data is backed up to a re-purposed thin client machine back in the office.
So the question is, do others here protect their equipment with UPS, surge protectors or just not bother? I'm just interested to know and welcome the input. Thanks in advance.
I have recently re-purposed an old, low power consumption PC to act as a dual purpose machine NAS (RAID 1) and PC which is located in the garage. The now superseded Zyxel NSA310 was protected by an APC Back-UPS in the office, but I was concerned about storing data on the unprotected machine in the garage. I was pretty unsure what to do, but eventually decided to buy a UPS for the the NAS/PC in the garage. The only thing that bothers me is that the UPS probably uses at least as much electricity as the NAS/PC, equivalent to about £27 per year.
On the other hand, in the month that the UPS has been installed, there have been two power cuts each lasting about 20s, the first within 24 hours of putting it in and the second about two weeks later. Where I live this is not an uncommon event. In the winter longer power cuts often happen as well, so maybe £27 p.a. is just the price I have to pay for data security where I live. It may be worth mentioning, before the 'RAID is not backup' cries kick in, that critical data is backed up to a re-purposed thin client machine back in the office.
So the question is, do others here protect their equipment with UPS, surge protectors or just not bother? I'm just interested to know and welcome the input. Thanks in advance.
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