Erich93063 wrote:
>
> I recently had a power outage at my house and I guess my surge
> protector was bad because my external USB 2.0 IDE drive is TOAST and

I always have two surge protectors to any of my pcs. Sometimes a surge
will phark the surge protection circuit and thus, it will no longer
protect you from a surge. I checked on of my pcs lately and both surge
protectors had the surge protection light OFF. So I replaced both of
them.

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