Why don't PCs and game consoles have an emergency battery?

er
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If a power failure happens, everything is defective. Why don't the manufacturers of XBox, PS and PC install a small emergency battery that enables a normal shutdown?

Sy

Because it would cost money and might even have to be replaced occasionally (see notebooks, they have one…).

If you need that, you can get a UPS.

Pe

Our power supply is usually relatively reliable and therefore unnecessary. If you are still worried, you can use an https://www.google.com/...e&ie=UTF-8.

ra

Then why should everything be broken? At most your data is junk on the HDD.

er

Does that help? I read that the UPS takes time to start. During this time, the console still has its blackout.

Fr

It would not be worth it.

But if you absolutely need it, you can buy something like a Nintendo Switch or a notebook.

Li

A UPS should start immediately. This is also the purpose behind it, that these devices, which are supposed to run, must be supplied with power again for a certain time, then the PC is plugged into the UPS and the UPS is connected to the power, the UPS is ultimately nothing more than a car battery.

Sy

It starts up sufficiently quickly (within fractions of a second, this is bridged by the capacitors in the power supply). There are also "online UPSs" that really do not produce any interruption.

Li

Normally, no data should be lost, at least nothing that is already saved, but if you have a document open or a game that is not yet saved, it may be that data is lost here, but with some programs it is also so-called There are temporary files that can be found and restored so that not all changes are lost. As long as the PC is not crashing during a Windows program update, this should not cause any major problems. But if that happens more often, the power fails or the PC crashes, then there's definitely something wrong with the PC or the power supply

ra

Then, like everyone here, I would recommend a UPS.

cl

If you need this, then buy a "Universal Power Station" (UPS).

There are such things in very many performance and price classes.

https://www.amazon.de/..._sb_noss_1

https://www.hardwareschotte.de/suche/?searchstring=computer+ups

So it goes from "reasonably cheap" to "fairly high quality and high price".

And only where there are unstable power grids can such a thing be useful for private users.

But if you have to do important applications on the PC and data security is an important issue, then it is almost a duty to buy something like this. Especially for commercial things.

So to secure local servers and NAS systems, and of course the most important tools.

Then you have a temporary reserve in the event of a power failure and can back up the data and, if necessary, shut down the system in a controlled manner.

How much time you have depends on the capacity of the UPS and the connected devices. Most UPS can also be programmed to process a specific protocol.