On Jul 19, 2013 10:04 PM, "Darr247" <darr247@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2013-07-19 1:01 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 7/19/2013 5:51 AM, Darr247 wrote: > >> On 2013-07-19 3:54 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >>>> Regardless of your storage, your system should be powered by a > >>>> monitored UPS. Verify that it works, and the drive's cache shouldn't > >>>> be a major concern. > >> It should also be a 'true sine wave' output when running on battery. > >> Many UPS units output a 'stepped approximation' (typically pulse width > >> modulation), which some computer power supplies may not like. > > virtually all PC and server power supplies now days are 'switchers', and > > could care less what the input wave form looks like. they full wave > > rectify the input voltage to DC, then chop it at 200Khz or so and run it > > through a toroidal transformer to generate the various DC voltages. > > > > > > Heh... go ahead and use stepped approximation UPS's then. > What do I know; I'm just a dumb electrician. I just trust Florida Flicker n Flash - never had outages.... more than once a day! Sorry could not resist....... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos