NEVER cheap out on these. Get you a good surge protector, it can save your life and home.
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2026
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I recommend IKEA for anything like this on the cheaper end.
It's a power strip not a surge protector.
It should still be properly grounded.
The amount of people I need to explain this to is the mildly infuriating part.
One time when packing up after a LAN party, a friend of mine grabbed my surge protector instead of his power strip. A couple days later I was like "Hey we swapped some gear by mistake. I think you took my surge protector and I have your power strip" and he was was like "Oh well I already set my computer back up at home, so maybe we just keep them because it's the same thing"
Nah, my dude. Mine is an expensive surge protector that I put my expensive computer equipment on. Yours is a $10 power strip from the bargain bin at Home Depot and I would never plug things I care about into it.
He did swap back with me but acted like it was such a bother.
friends like this aren't friends, they're jerks waiting to use people adjacent to them.
My apartment has fucked wiring, its killed things through decent surge protectors.
At this point all of my computers that I run daily are on APC UPS's.
Good luck nuking shit through one of those.
Be sure to use an online type that always powers the output via the batteries, rather than a backup type the switches to battery after the input looks bad.
I've gone through a lot of APC products. They don't seem to last in my experience.
But I agree a proper UPS / PDU is important for a computer.
For the cheaper things, I really like Tripp Lite ISOBAR surge protectors.
You have to replace the batteries every 2-3 years
Yeah, I've honestly have had better luck with battery longevity of other brands like CyberPower
I usually don't buy a ups unless I can off the shelf battery replacements.
Which you can do for CyberPower
APC used to be rock solid; I have a unit by my foot that's had the battery changed 3 times, once after a nasty power surge / lightning storm, the other two times after a decade of use. IIRC it's a 2001 model. Replacement battery was $22 last time I changed it, just after covid.
I always buy the ones marked with either 3680W or 2.5mm2