Wes Newell wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:48:03 -0600, DevilsPGD wrote:
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>
>>I've blown half a dozen of the cheapo ones before learning my lesson,
>>virtually always they died when there was unstable power coming in from
>>the mains. I've yet to lose a "name brand" (my desktop is Antec, my
>>servers are something else, I forget what off-hand, but some of them
>>have been going 5-6 years)
>
>
> The Novell server where I used to work had a failed PSU in 1995. It was a
> name brand that came with the server which originally was a 386. I
> replaced it with a no-name and it's still running today after 10 years,

I hate to tell you this but trying to make judgments about arbitrary 'no
names' today based on an unspecified PSU bought 10 years ago is nonsense
even beyond anecdotal stories being close to useless.

> as
> is the drives from the same time frame. BTW, If you had bad power coming
> in, you should have fixed that with a regulated UPS. Changing the PSU
> didn't fix anything. It only masked the problem. That's if I believed you
> actually lost 6 PSU's to this, which I don't.:-)
>