10 Mar
2008
10 Mar
'08
4:41 p.m.
nate wrote
the whole point of a BBU is that you can turn on write back caching - and get a fair win in write performance on regular tasks.
You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown)
UPS isnt going to help in cases where something breaks on the inner side ( psu fail, mobo fail, ram blows up etc ).
But, I am with Ross on this one - if its just a desktop machine, it might be well worth doing a bit of RTFM, and setting up a md-raid/lvm volume and be done with it.
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