Lest too many of you develop the opinion that I'm an energy conservation maniac (not a bad thing, that, but..), we do indulge in UPSs that are on 24/7 to protect critical electronics.

I imagine they don't help the bottom line for power consumption, but they do seem to have put an end to premature death syndrome for the things we plug into them.

Or maybe designs have just improved enough. Dunno. Before we started using UPSs, we did have the odd PSU and/or motherboard just "die" for no good reason, but never since.

Cheers