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Only with a UPS

Only with a UPS

Posted Sep 10, 2009 19:22 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Only with a UPS by dlang
Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

I suspect aliguori is referring to disk-array boxes, not drives.


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Only with a UPS

Posted Sep 11, 2009 16:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Even then... it's just occurred to me that while I know my Areca RAID
controller has its own battery-backed cache, I have no idea whether it's
asked the drives it controls to turn off *their* internal write cache...
(Obviously we don't want that cache, as it's not battery-backed in any
way.)

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