guess who just bought a 3ware BBU on ebay...
Thanks for all the posts, consider me educated!
(on the importance of BBU on RAID controllers, anyway)
:)
Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:22, Tom Arthurs wrote:
UPS does not protect against the tech behind the rack unplugging the
power cable, or an accidental power cycle from exercising the wrong
switch. :) Both are probably more common causes of failure than a total
power outage.
Erik Myllymaki wrote:
I have been in discussion with 3ware support and after adjusting some
settings, the 3ware card in RAID 1 gets better performance than the
single drive. I guess this had everything to do with the write (and
maybe read?) cache.
Of course now i am in a dangerous situation - using volatile write
cache without a BBU.
If I were to use a UPS to ensure a soft shutdown in the event of power
loss, am I somewhat as safe as if I were to purchase a BBU for this
RAID card?
Nor does it prevent an electrician from dropping a tiny piece of wire
into a power conditioner, causing a feedback that blows the other two
power conditioners, all three industrial UPSes, and the switch that
allows the Diesal generator to take over.
When that happened to me, I had the only database server in the company
to come back up 100% in tact. You can guess by now I also had the only
database server with battery backed cache...
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