APC Back-UPS ES 725
March 10th, 2004 | by Jeff Fila
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Introduction If you haven't learned your lesson yet, chances are you will. The lesson is: protect your data. Many people in the Northeast learned that lesson the hard way in August of 2003, when a blackout shut down systems, businesses and whole cities from Detroit to New York in the blink of an eye. In that instant, thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people lost valuable data when their computer shut down without saving work. However, it wasn't just data, power events like this also cause physical damage to sensitive equipment such as computers and network gear. Much of this equipment and data loss could have been prevented with a simple investment of an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). A UPS is a device that sits between a power source and an electronic device such as a computer. The UPS protects the computer from “power events” such as outages, sags, surges, noise and spikes. UPS systems provide “clean” regulated power as well as backup power in the form of a battery. American Power Conversion (APC) has been making UPS systems since 1984 and is the industry leader. In this review, we take a look at one of APC's many consumer oriented UPS systems, the Back-UPS ES 725 Broadband.
The APC Back-UPS ES 725 features 8 power outlets (4 on battery backup).
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by J. Simons on December 6, 2005:
“This is the third UPS I've used and the second from this company. It's not the best and has it's querks, just like everything else; however, it's quite good at it's job. I'd recommend it based on the price however if you can afford a better one i'd opt to...” More...