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Only with a UPS

Posted Sep 11, 2009 16:24 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Only with a UPS by ncm
Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

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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