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A. Khattri wrote: |
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> On Sat, 24 May 2008, Michelangelo wrote: |
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>> Besides, RAID 5 is not always a good choice: I got 2 adaptec and 3ware |
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>> cards |
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>> that got them bioses/nvram messed up thanks to power spikes during the |
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>> big |
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>> italian blackout back in 2003. And yes, they were behind online APC ups |
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> We use RAID 1 but generally our servers are located in a data center. We |
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> survived the big New York blackout a few years back plus several other |
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> power problems in the datacenter. Our 3Ware and Adaptec RAID cards were |
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> unaffected by any of these outages. |
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One thing people often forget is that the write cache on your disks need |
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to either have a battery backup like your RAID card or be turned off. |
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kashani |
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