I ran a universal power supply for a few years back in the day.  That would be a nice addition to my system!  I backup my backups but still sometimes I am performing a large file transfer or write between drives and a crash during the operation would suck.  Nothing I can't recover from just a general suck!!

This of course is a learning thread for the "just in case" should such an event happen.  Never has so far.

In the area where I live we get 3-5 times a year the electricity in the neighborhood flashes on and off for about 30 seconds, mostly about 10 seconds tops.  Not too often but it happens.  I have lived here for over a decade and never has the power been out for more than an hour.  So yes a power backup would make sense and I will attend to that in the next two months.  Power supplies also have the added benefit of "smoothing out" the electrical current source going to the computers and stuff.  A power supply that would run my computer and router for 10-15 minutes is all I need.  During that time I could easily perform a safe shutdown of anything critical.  Good ideas.   Thanks all.