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The point of a UPS or equivalent is to protect the SSD during a power failure. I've lost Raspberry Pi configurations several times due to power failures when I'm away from the house. It has been a major PITA and time consuming to recover from.
Yeah, and like I've got DNS through PiHole on the same machine as HA. That particular machine doesn't always want to come back up after power failure. And I hate going to the basement except to do laundry or bury the bodies. Having constant uptime is just useful.