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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:15:43 +1100
From:      Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffwa@cs.rmit.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Message-ID:  <20070212231543.GA28853@cs.rmit.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <008001c74e8a$1557afb0$0c00a8c0@Artem>
References:  <20070212083748.GA837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <008001c74e8a$1557afb0$0c00a8c0@Artem>

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:11:42PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> >On 2007-Feb-12 16:07:03 +1030, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 
> >wrote:
> >>I regularly ship systems overseas where the power fails frequently. The 
> >>inability to boot because one disk got hosed is Bad News (tm).
> 
> >A decent UPS can help here.
> 
> No, i can't. I have seen UPS (even APC) fail in some cases. Computers
> got frozen. Also, i've seen many cases when power failes for more than 4 
> hours
> and nobody want to buy UPS which hold 4 hours of power for a dual xeon
> with 5 hdds.
> 

sysutils/nut is a good work-around for this.

--Geoff



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