UPS

[hyperD]

The only danger that I think I might need to consider a UPS for is if the disk is doing something sensitive and the power goes. Was it owly the other day who said that he knocked the power lead out and it knackered the drive?

That's what happened to my two servers (Dell PowerEdge).

[doodab]

Was it owly the other day who said that he knocked the power lead out and it knackered the drive?

I think he knocked his box over at the same time. That could knacker a spinning drive anyway. I've never seen a power outage physically break a drive, not saying it doesn't happen but I'm at a loss to see how it could.

[hyperD]

I've never seen a power outage physically break a drive, not saying it doesn't happen but I'm at a loss to see how it could.

Power outage with write caching on the disk killed my Win 2k servers (I think).

[stek]

Power outage with write caching on the disk killed my Win 2k servers (I think).

#youneedasan

[hyperD]

#youneedasan

This was over 10 years ago - I got cloud (and dedicated) now!

[stek]

This was over 10 years ago - I got cloud (and dedicated) now!

I'm still building my home SAN, beginning to think its impossible without spunking potloads on expensive cast offs....

[hyperD]

I'm still building my home SAN, beginning to think its impossible without spunking potloads on expensive cast offs....

I got an old Synology Diskstation 1010+ with 10Tb non raid storage - 2Tb disks are (were) around the £60 mark. I'd like to say they are full of important client data but most of it is backup and DVDs!

[stek]

I got an old Synology Diskstation 1010+ with 10Tb non raid storage - 2Tb disks are (were) around the £60 mark. I'd like to say they are full of important client data but most of it is backup and DVDs!

That won't be fibre tho will it? Looking to boot IBM POWER VIO rootvg from San and build LPARs on top.

Can do it with the DS3400 but I don't have any dual port SATA disks and they're not cheap!

[hyperD]

That won't be fibre tho will it? Looking to boot IBM POWER VIO rootvg from San and build LPARs on top.

Can do it with the DS3400 but I don't have any dual port SATA disks and they're not cheap!

No, I don't think it's standalone for the use you want stek, I use mine within the office Gb network as an immediate backup (rest goes to cloud via Carbonite).

[Platypus]

Of course you need to work out the VA you need.

I've one of these: APC Back-UPS RS 800VA - UPS
Cheap as chips, very good: http://www.amazon.co.uk/APC-Back-UPS...apc+ups+rs+800

I preferred my old Belkin UPS, until one over-heated alarmingly. It didn't catch fire but it sure scared the tulip out of me.

If I was buying now I'd get this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/APC-BR900GI-...apc+ups+rs+800

APC customer support is good, BTW.

I've also got one of these to keep my screens alive:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/APC-BE400-UK...ywords=apc+ups

P.S. I didn't read the whole thread so pls forgive any dumbness!