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B1nary said:
Do you have a UPS? always a good idea to increase the lifespan of your Rig with nice clean power.
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Only if it's a Line-Interactive or Double Conversion UPS. an Offline/Standby UPS (sometimes also called a Backup UPS) will actually just give you your mains power unless the mains is interrupted, at which stage it will use the battery.

a Line-interactive UPS provides MUCH better protection as it has a multi-tap variable-voltage autotransformer. Don't fall for the "a buck-boost transformer effectively does the same thing" marketing bullshit either.

The real proper (read expensive) UPS is the Online/Double Conversion type as you ALWAYS get clean power, everything is always pumped through the rectifier. This offers complete electrical isolation.

This is the type you want to avoid
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B1nary said:
Do you have a UPS? always a good idea to increase the lifespan of your Rig with nice clean power.
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PsychoFish said:
Only if it's a Line-Interactive or Double Conversion UPS. an Offline/Standby UPS (sometimes also called a Backup UPS) will actually just give you your mains power unless the mains is interrupted, at which stage it will use the battery.

a Line-interactive UPS provides MUCH better protection as it has a multi-tap variable-voltage autotransformer. Don't fall for the "a buck-boost transformer effectively does the same thing" marketing bullshit either.

The real proper (read expensive) UPS is the Online/Double Conversion type as you ALWAYS get clean power, everything is always pumped through the rectifier. This offers complete electrical isolation.

This is the type you want to avoid
1KVA%20Mecer%20ups-500x500-800x800.jpg
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Can you guys recommend me one?
 
[MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] Fair Enough but its still better than bareback no ?

It might not be completely clean but if it dips or peaks high enough the UPS will kick in, Mine does.
 
B1nary said:
[MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] Fair Enough but its still better than bareback no ?

It might not be completely clean but if it dips or peaks high enough the UPS will kick in, Mine does.
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It's effectively as good as how quickly the UPS can kick over to the inverter. This can be as long enough for a significant surge to pop your PSU.
 
PsychoFish said:
It's effectively as good as how quickly the UPS can kick over to the inverter. This can be as long enough for a significant surge to pop your PSU.
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Agreed, but again better than nothing [MENTION=20]Solitude[/MENTION] as far as recommendations APC maybe I would look around for reviews, again as Psychofish has stated its not going to be perfect but I would rate it better than nothing, don't know if you agree or have supplier recommendations [MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] ?
 
B1nary said:
Agreed, but again better than nothing [MENTION=20]Solitude[/MENTION] as far as recommendations APC maybe I would look around for reviews, again as Psychofish has stated its not going to be perfect but I would rate it better than nothing, don't know if you agree or have supplier recommendations [MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] ?
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APC Back-UPS Pro range is probably the best I can recommend for SOHO use. And to be sure, also get the APC SureArrest (or similar) surge protection power strip.

Plug the UPS into the Surge Protection power strip and your PC,Monitor and Router into the UPS. If you have a surge protector for the phone line make sure that damn thing is plugged in.

I've seen a motherboard getting fried because the surge popped the router and ultimately passed through the network cable popping the MB.

But Vendors for UPS in order of preference :

- APC (If I'm ever on life support I want the damn thing to have an APC UPS)
- Eaton
- Tripp Lite
- CyberPower
- Mercury UPS
- Proline
- Mecer
 
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A question if I may; SSD drives have a read/write life cycle, as such this is somewhat of a double edged sword. Do you put applications or operating systems that get used very often but you'll benefit from it's speed improvements, or do you load applications or data intensive applications or function on them that you may not use as often but benefitted greatly from it's speed improvements?
 
BeoTeK said:
A question if I may; SSD drives have a read/write life cycle, as such this is somewhat of a double edged sword. Do you put applications or operating systems that get used very often but you'll benefit from it's speed improvements, or do you load applications or data intensive applications or function on them that you may not use as often but benefitted greatly from it's speed improvements?
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At home my SSD has my OS and 1 game on it. I put the game on there because it kind suffers from long-ish loading times and the SSD helps. At work my laptop only has an SSD so everything is installed on it. IMO, i would use an SSD to only run the OS and perhaps 1 or 2 regularly used apps.
 
Cronus086 said:
At home my SSD has my OS and 1 game on it. I put the game on there because it kind suffers from long-ish loading times and the SSD helps. At work my laptop only has an SSD so everything is installed on it. IMO, i would use an SSD to only run the OS and perhaps 1 or 2 regularly used apps.
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So you wouldn't recommend it to run database(s) on?
 
BeoTeK said:
A question if I may; SSD drives have a read/write life cycle, as such this is somewhat of a double edged sword. Do you put applications or operating systems that get used very often but you'll benefit from it's speed improvements, or do you load applications or data intensive applications or function on them that you may not use as often but benefitted greatly from it's speed improvements?
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SSD wear is on write. It's a bit of a double edged sword as you mentioned. Effectively you want the stuff you want to LOAD quickly on the SSD and you want to minimize unnecessary writes to the SSD.

NEVER EVER put your swap file on your SSD. Yes it's fast, but it will severely shorten the life of your SSD with useless writes.
 
PsychoFish said:
if you use Enterprise grade MLC and TLC drives then a DB is perfectly fine...

but then again you're forking out R45k per 3.75 TB drive
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But even consumer grade SSD's, running a database(s) on this drive will surely improve its overall performance in reading and writing to the DB but this will result in much shorter lifespans of the drive, isn't?
 
BeoTeK said:
But even consumer grade SSD's, running a database(s) on this drive will surely improve its overall performance in reading and writing to the DB but this will result in much shorter lifespans of the drive, isn't?
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100% correct...just don't expect the drive to last very long. After ~100TB worth of writes most consumer grade SSDs will start reallocating, and once that start happening it's on its way out.
 
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