Do I need a UPS?

Litecom - An I.T. Services and Telecommunications Company

Published in The Water Cooler · Monday 02 Apr 2018

Real story from the Archives:

 

A client called and said, “My computer has a Blue screen. “

 

The color Blue described, did not sound like a virus.

 

So, we asked, “What happened.”

They answered,

 

“I came in, powered up the PC as I do every morning and went to make coffee. While making coffee, there was a power surge / brown out. After making the coffee and pouring a cup, I went to my PC, and there was a Blue screen.”

 The verdict, Corrupted Hard Drive, Master Boot Record. After removing the hard drive and repairing it, the data was recoverable, but it would never run a PC again.

 After Travel and labor charges to diagnose, recover files from old hard drive after repairing it, return to site, replace with new PC, reload client specific utilities and peripherals no longer available or supported, $$$+. All this over a 2-week time frame.

The moral of the story, get a UPS. You will spend between $150.00 to $275.00 or more on a UPS.

But you will never know what you missed.