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Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

Posted Sep 5, 2009 0:31 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers? by giraffedata
Parent article: Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?

actually, there are a LOT of enclosures that don't provide battery backup for the drives at all, just for the cache.

it's possible that they have heavy duty power supplies that keep power up for a fraction of a second after the power fail signal goes out to the drives, but they defiantly do not keep the drives spinning long enough to flush their caches


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