I have had PC's for 15 years. Repaired my own for 13 years. Built my own for ten years. I have three PC's running test programs 24 hours a day as we speak and I have never owned a UPS. I have always used serge protectors. once data is written to the hard drive it can be recovered. The small amount of data loss in ram is not worth the high cost of UPS. I will add-- If my business depended on it and I was not computer savvy, I would use a UPS.
