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nearby lightning skrike kills neighbours computers (and mine)
cranioscopical:
UNPLUG IT
-app103 (June 30, 2011, 06:56 PM)
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Probably good to write that backwards across the forehead!
nudone:
Yes, good point about unplugging the reserve machine - I had already thought about it and taken it one step further in my head:
only one machine is ever allowed to be plugged in at any one time, i.e. there will always be a machine safe from a power spike. Therefore data transfer between the two machines will have to done via a third storage device, which could just be a hard drive.
Sound advice about the psu being damaged from shades; I will try to test it.
eleman:
The sad reality is that Paraguay has a lot of power failures/spikes/noise which results in a lot of prematurely dying power supplies.
-Shades (June 30, 2011, 07:17 PM)
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Consider using UPS. Even cheap ones should provide some protection against voltage fluctuations and line noise.
Carol Haynes:
Yes, good point about unplugging the reserve machine - I had already thought about it and taken it one step further in my head:
only one machine is ever allowed to be plugged in at any one time, i.e. there will always be a machine safe from a power spike. Therefore data transfer between the two machines will have to done via a third storage device, which could just be a hard drive.
Sound advice about the psu being damaged from shades; I will try to test it.
-nudone (June 30, 2011, 11:45 PM)
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Sounds like a case for NAS with good synchronisation software.
Actually this is what I do with my laptop - I keep all important data synced with my desktop.
app103:
Sounds like a case for NAS with good synchronisation software.
Actually this is what I do with my laptop - I keep all important data synced with my desktop.
-Carol Haynes (July 01, 2011, 02:46 AM)
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But remember to unplug it, otherwise, if you get hit, you could lose your NAS and everything on it.
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