What - no power conditioning/"surge" strips or UPSes? Or did these get toasted too? I have always run the "Isobar" and "IsoTel" series which are made of extruded aluminum and have *real* coils and caps (noise/EMI/RFI protection) as well as surge suppressor (transorb/varistor) devices ... Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Blick" To: Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Hard Drive Crash Recovery - snip - > > Off-site's not a bad idea. This all hits very close to home. The power > supply in my office computer decided to go ballistic and uncontrolled last > week. The fans sounded like jet engines, and almost masked the popping > sounds of chips losing their epoxy. Smoke poured out, the power switch(ATX > soft power, ya know) did nothing. > > Everything was toast. The hard drive would not spin. I got an identical > new drive and swapped boards, now it spun up fine, but just went > clack-clack. I guess the internal head electronics was toast. Estimate > from Drivesavers for their "economy" service was $1900 to recover the > data. Luckily I was well backed up. > > Except now I have to make friends with a new computer. > > Networked backups a good idea, off-site backups even better! I've never > heard of this happening before, but I'm paranoid now. > > Cheers, > > Bob > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu