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Safeguard your PC from power outages and surges with a UPS.
Tripp Lite Smart 500 USB
The white-and-blue Smart 500 USB offers a lot of value for the money. The Smart 500 USB (4.75 by 7 by 8.25 inches, width by depth by height) retails for only $169, but it powered our test bed for a generous 17 minutes, 34 seconds. Like the the Smart 450RT, it comes with the complex-but-powerful PowerAlert remote UPS monitoring software. PowerAlert installs and configures easily, and it shut down our test bed gracefully. Like the APC Back-UPS Pro USB 500, the Smart 500 USB communicates with your computer via a USB cable.
The Smart 500 USB splits its six outlets evenly between battery
backup/surge protection and surge protection only, while two RJ-11 telephone
jacks are provided to surge-protect your modem. The front panel contains the
warning and battery status lights, the on/off switch, and an alarm silence
button. One gripe: We wished the status lights had identification labels as
well as symbols. The Smart 500 USB carries $50,000 in equipment liability
insurance and a two-year warranty.
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