On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 04:28:08AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [...] > I went through a few-years-long period where I was constantly > replacing failed power supplies. Then I finally decided to splurge on > a GOOD one, huge wattage, very reputable company, and at *least* twice > the $$$ I'd ever spent on a power supply before. > > Never had another power supply problem since. (Knock on wood...)
Yeah, all those cheap PSU's you get from door-crasher sales, all those are crap. They start behaving funny after 2 years (if even that) and randomly shutting off for no reason on the 3rd anniversary. The PSU is one of those things that you *want* to make a good investment in. > One important thing to keep on mind (that I've learned from Tom's > Hardware and Sharky Extreme) is that power supply manufacturer > apparently lie about their wattages as a regular matter of course. Ie, > if it says "X Watts", then you're never going to get it to even about > 0.9*X without the stupid thing blowing up. So keep that in mind when > shopping. Heh. Reminds me of my UPS... I bought it to protect my very expensive PSU from power surges/failures, but guess what? The PSU is still running and the UPS has been dead for 4 years. :-P > Regarding HDDs, I've sworn I will *never* run a main system again > without a GOOD always-on SMART monitor like Hard Disk Sentinel > <http://www.hdsentinel.com/>. In fact, that's one of the main reasons > I haven't switched my primary OS from Win to Linux yet, because I > can't find a good Linux SMART monitor. (Manually running a CLI program > - or writing a script to do it - doesn't even remotely count.) Oooh! > Actually, now that I've looked up that link, it looks like they do > have an early Linux version now. Awesome, I'm gonna have to try that > out. Sounds like something I *should* be running. I'll have to look into that. T -- Живёшь только однажды.