It doesn't help, when we're talking about Atlas probes. I have one probe, where external flash died twice, even it's placed in datacenter with UPS-protected power.
On 23.05.16 15:35, "ripe-atlas on behalf of James R Cutler" <ripe-atlas-boun...@ripe.net on behalf of james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote: Stable power, as from a UPS, also isolates the probe from power glitches which may cause rebooting of the probe, thus adding to the write count. Not to mention corruption from power failure during writes. Opinion: If the device/system/operation is at all important, use of a UPS is effectively mandatory.
