Battery Backups

Since I got my battery backup, (uninterruptable power supply) tonight was the first night she really got to show off what she could do, had really serious lightning come up suddenly, and the power was off and on real fast, the UPS did its job to the max, my computer didn't miss a beat.

If you don't have one you really should consider putting it on your lists of future buys, especially for anyone running a RAID0 array, its definitely worth every penny.

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Yeah, why anyone with a Raid0 array?

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I dunno. Why?

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He's either not around, or he's going around rechecking what a Raid0 array is to find an explaination.

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You didn't ask. We're trying to get answers here, bub.

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If the power goes out, it's a big risk on backup arrays.

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Oh yeah, you're Swedish, I forgot...

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Why do I need one especially for raid array o...huh? huh? why?

If it's true that guns kill people, then it's my keyboard's fault when I misspell wurds...

Sorry guys we had some bad storms last night and my ISP went down, a striped array especially with the new drives with 8mb cache being doubled in a striped RAID0 array to 16mb, can contain quite a bit of data that could be lost if the power was completely and suddenly stopped, while you were say in the middle of doing some data transfers.

XP if you haven't disabled its feature, writes some important data to the cache itself, enabling fast access and a faster shutdown, its not wise to just pull the power on a single HDD, much less a striped RAID array.

It doesn't really matter that much with a mirrored array because it backs itself up, but data loss on a striped array could result in having to completely reload the OP/SYS, it really depends on what the HDDs doing at the time of the power loss.

But you guys can prove me wrong if you want just start doing some critical data apps and snatch your power cord out of the wall, and report back how things went.

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Morning RC! Hows things today? Do you know how Mikes getting along? I asked him in a post the other day how his healing was progressing, he either didn't answer or I may have missed it? He should be doing quite well by now, unless he's had some complications. Do you know anything?




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Ryan - I can't believe some of these peeps are debating the value of a ups/back-up unit. I thought this was settled geek truth ...



<b> ...more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol - W.C. Fields </b>

Agreed. I have an APC Back-UPS 650VA, has saved me tons of times, thank god. I got about 10-15 minutes of back-up juice on it each time, which is excellent for modern PCs. IIRC 650VA is about 400W, right?

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Hi Jake, Hope all is well with you, this place doesn't seem to be happy unless they're argueing about something, you can't have an intelligent conversation with the majority of them, without being called some kind of name simply because you had a difference of opinion, I don't respond well to that kind of crap, so from that point the intelligent conversation is out the window.

Some things are just no brainers to me and I had put off getting a UPS for a long time because of the price of them and because I wanted one with a high VA, I got an 1100VA 600W it can run 2 average computers, but I only have it set up on mine, if I truly had know its capabilities I wouldn't have waited so long to get one.

But with the road construction going on down from my house, with accidently cutting power lines becoming a regular thing, and the Thunder storms we've had lately I went ahead and got one, and at this point after last night, I don't regret it. One thing I'm really impressed with is the guaranteed replacement of any damaged hardware up to $150,000.00, if the unit I bought fails to protect my computer. Sweeeeet! That should cover a replacement don't you think?


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"But you guys can prove me wrong if you want just start doing some critical data apps and snatch your power cord out of the wall, and report back how things went."

...my cat just died.

My dick is so big, that my dick has a dick. And my dicks' dick is bigger than yours.

My brother bought like 5 battery backups, but I think all of them have had their batteries gone bad. The things just continuously beep when a computer is plugged into them.

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Couldn't agree more. UPS' here are often disregarded, but in the times we get power outages, it becomes clear why we bought one or need one soon.

In Lebanon I believe every household with a comp has one. They pretty much are included on a list of a computer someone is going to buy, it's almost standard. Over there power outages are a routine every day.

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Very true. I once had my RAM corrupted with a power outage, on my old P2 350MMX system. Every time I start Windows 98SE it tells me it has a registry corruption (obviously not), I had to restart and let it restore to an earlier date letting it be fooled into thinking it was fixed. Power surges or instant blackouts can easily destroy equipment. Just think, that split second of power outage can destroy all your computer. Better have an investment against that split second that would protect your 2000$ PC.

Seems like many here disregard that reality and ignore what we're trying to say.

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Well, look at some answers, aside the usual humor.

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