>Why not a UPS? I have a few customers who do not wish to invest in UPS's for some reason. They could have purchased 3 UPS's for their system for $200. Instead they choose to pay me several thousand over the year to repair their files every time they crash.
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>There seems to be a general resistance to go for this cheap solution. I find it particular strange that I have several large companies, where they do not even bother to place a UPS on the server.

I guess you could just tell them the next time it happens, it will cost (number of PCs * cost of UPS) to fix. Fix the data corruption and then drop off the UPS's ;-) Of course, that might not go over so well with some customers <g>...