Part J) is now located here in the comments, due to reaching the limit to how much one can post in the main thread’s body text:
J) Power surges that may possibly happen to your PC/Server during a thunder and lightning storm
If a storm happens in your area, and if lightning strikes your electricity in your home or surrounding area, you may find that hardware incidents may happen to your PC/Server/or hard drives. Previously I had left my PC server on while there was a storm, and unfortunately lightning happened to hit quite close to the house. My PC was actually sleeping, however even in sleep mode lightning can affect the hardware of computers. I found that one of my internal HDDs lost its health from 85% to 53%. I then decided to do a surface scan (a bad idea at the time) with the above Hard disk sentinel pro software, however seeing that the hard drive was affected by lightning, after the scan was completed the health of the drive went even further down, to 27%… so its best to be wise with how you look after your hardware, and when to use the scanning and disk repairing features of this program as well.
A good amount of information regarding computers left on while there is a thunder and lightning storm, including what power boards you should be using, such as surge protection devices (SPDs) that may stop any electricity surge from happening, along with an attached UPS device to protect equipment against power surges, can be found at the link below. The UPS details were suggested by @TrialMaster in the comments below, so many thanks for this suggestion:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/06/11/3760939.htm
