"James Wilkinson Sword"
news alt.home.repair, wrote:

Not LED lightbulbs, they're too cheap to have that protection.
And my computer is not protected against 5 second outages. The
system shuts off and corrupts the hard disk.

What OS are you using? Depending on what the computer was doing at the
time of power loss, the corruption should be miminal and/or non
existant. It usually happens with delayed writes that don't occur at
all, or were in progress when the power was lost.

This is sadly, the price you pay for modern operating systems that have
files loaded all the time and do read/writes in the background and not
when you initially thought. IE: when you saved the .doc file, your
changes may not have been committed to physical storage yet. The OS
might be waiting until it has more information to write out. If you
lose power in one of those states, you could corrupt files and/or
various aspects of the file system itself.


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Sarcasm, because beating the living **** out of deserving people is
illegal.