Uninterruptible power supply or surge protector?

Question

Electronics

Hello. Tell me, does it make sense to buy a UPS for a computer in an apartment? The light is turned off quite rarely, but the old wiring worries me, I would like to secure a new expensive computer, since another one, if something happens, I won’t pull it. So far, I have chosen the best Powercom SPIDER SPD-1000N standby UPS in terms of price-reviews with protection against overload, high-voltage impulses and short circuit, but perhaps it is enough to buy a good surge protector for these purposes? If so, which one? How to choose reliable enough?

Answer 1

Lights are rarely turned off

.. means all the same turn off? believe me, once a year, but a situation will happen when you lose valuable work due to the mistake of a neighbor / bulldozer / thunderstorm / etc - that's why my advice is -
UPS at least 7 minutes for your hardware - save and turn it off yourself / so that it would have time to extinguish correctly in your absence
, my old Ippon 600 still manages to extinguish everything to a crash, even in my absence (although the hardware is economical - I choose cold processors for a long time, graphics only Silent, now 1030, so at rest, together with monik 27 (not sleeping), i5-3330, 24Gb, 4 SDD, 1 terik, on average do not exceed 55 W)

Answer 2

UPS protects data and server health/availability. Relevant for long power outages - more than one tenth of a second.
The simplest UPS does not protect against power surges and cannot save the computer when a large voltage enters the network. Although there is a UPS with a built-in surge protector; but not the fact that if the manufacturer writes about protection, then it is there. However, network filters can also be false - capitalism is the same.
Old wiring is dangerous not for a computer, but for an apartment - it can start a fire. I would advise you to re-lay the wiring - at least in critical places where there is a lot of consumption (as a rule, when installing a washing machine - a separate cable leads to it.