Answer by Multiverse IT for Why is an UPS needed for a server?
Jonas, It's a wonderful thing to THINK the OS should handle an outage - and it SHOULD. BUT, reality differs. Reads and writes take place very quickly but if it loses power at the wrong moment, you lose...
View ArticleAnswer by Richard West for Why is an UPS needed for a server?
And finally, if an UPS is used, doesn't the server applications need to have support for it? outherwise the power outage is only delayed? Or is it only the operating system that needs the UPS? Why is...
View ArticleAnswer by EEAA for Why is an UPS needed for a server?
There are many, many reasons to use a UPS, but using your example of DB transactions, look at it this way. Even if a transaction is committed, you lose power, and your RAID write cache (you are using...
View ArticleAnswer by mfinni for Why is an UPS needed for a server?
Accidents do still happen. RAID cache batteries not working properly is a concrete example, but journaling filesystems and transactional integrity simply aren't guaranteed when the power is pulled....
View ArticleAnswer by Warner for Why is an UPS needed for a server?
The brief interruption to someone's work is more likely going to cost less than buying and maintaining a desktop UPS. That's one of many reasons why many professional solutions are server based and...
View ArticleWhy is an UPS needed for a server?
I wounder how important it is to have an UPS for a server. Everyone seems to use UPS for servers but not for client computers. In example, if I use Windows Small Business Server on a small network for...
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