[CentOS] Power-outage

[Emmanuel Noobadmin]

On 7/3/11, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> be a good investment, but still I wonder why there are no offers on the
> market with a "boosted" PSU units that can sustain DC power for a couple of seconds
> during the AC "blinks". They don't even need to use a battery, maybe a set
> of  condensers could sustain power for a short period (although I might be
> wrong,  never did the numbers on that).

> Given that I believe there certainly is a market for such a PSU, I'm just
> surprised nobody is selling it yet. You cannot assume that the AC wall
> outlet  will always provide perfect power... ;-)

Ah, manufacturers do sell this stuff at least a few years back. It
came with a battery pack that was installed into the 5.25" drive bay.
But as this type never made it into mainstream awareness, likely due
to the low cost of a basic UPS nowadays, it just didn't make sense
when such a PSU cost almost the same as a normal PSU + UPS. And the
UPS had a longer run time as well as being able to support a few other
accessories at the same time, and acts as a shield by sitting between
any power surge and your PSU, as opposed to the PSU + battery.