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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