That is true, buy high quality stuff up front for fewer problems down
the road. Not a sure bet, but a better one. In the half dozen systems
I've been running at home for the past several years none of them
have suffered a hardware failure of any kind(fortunately). I've been
running PC Power and Cooling power supplies for about 9 years now,
really high quality PSUs(last one I bought was about 4 years ago, can't
speak for their quality now).
So for a top quality power supply for a mission critical desktop machine, which
brand(s) would you reccomend? One of the towers I have is a Thermaltake
Xaser 3 with lots of room, and I just bought a new Antec Sonata III tower
with a 500 watt PS.
So BBU is certainly a nice thing to have but at least in my
experience isn't absolutely critical.
Then for a Mission critical desktop machine, if you had to make
a choice, would you go with a good quality UPS and/or redundant
power supplies, or a BBU instead?
Of course for absolutely critical things I don't use server-based
RAID anyways. Multiple redundant controllers, multiple redundant
paths(to both the disks and to the hosts), is the way to go(assuming
your application(s) aren't built to be able to run on something
like a distributed file system). I've seen that some of the
latest HP servers have dual ported SAS disks, which sounds pretty
neat. I assume they still only have one controller though.
As an alternative to RAID1 for a mission critical desktop machine @
home, what would you reccomend? Maybe a bare metal restore solution
able to restore to different hardware, (i.e. if a motherboard dies and drive
crashes due to power spike or some catastrophe, I'm screwed
if I can't find the exact same make - model)?
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