On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:22, Tom Arthurs wrote:
> UPS does not protect against the tech behind the rack unplugging the 
> power cable, or an accidental power cycle from exercising the wrong 
> switch. :)  Both are probably more common causes of failure than a total 
> power outage.
> 
> Erik Myllymaki wrote:
> > I have been in discussion with 3ware support and after adjusting some 
> > settings, the 3ware card in RAID 1 gets better performance than the 
> > single drive. I guess this had everything to do with the write (and 
> > maybe read?) cache.
> >
> > Of course now i am in a dangerous situation - using volatile write 
> > cache without a BBU.
> >
> > If I were to use a UPS to ensure a soft shutdown in the event of power 
> > loss, am I somewhat as safe as if I were to purchase a BBU for this 
> > RAID card?

Nor does it prevent an electrician from dropping a tiny piece of wire
into a power conditioner, causing a feedback that blows the other two
power conditioners, all three industrial UPSes, and the switch that
allows the Diesal generator to take over.

When that happened to me, I had the only database server in the company
to come back up 100% in tact.  You can guess by now I also had the only
database server with battery backed cache...

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