Avoid UPGuards PSUs. You have been warned.
Many manufacturers make low-quality hardware because it’s cheaper and they can sell it for less. Often, cheap hardware is just what you need; unless you’re buying UPGuards branded equipment. In this building we have a little bit of a power issue because instead of 230V we get between 240V and 255V depending on which way the wind is blowing. This may be the cause this may not be the cause, but the fact of the matter is, we have had somewhere in the region of 80 UPGuards PSUs, and I have replaced approximately 65-70 of them so far, and more die every month. Every time I have replaced one of these it has been with a bog-standard HEC 350W PSU and, let me be clear on this, not one of the HEC PSUs has failed on me yet. Not a single solitary one. These are not expensive or high quality PSUs, just cheap bog-standard quality.
If the HEC PSUs are fine, there is NO excuse for UPGuards to have nearly a 90% failure rate.
Buyer beware!
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