Therese Trudeau wrote: >>> 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) >>> >> Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to >> help if your PS fails. >> > > That's a very good point never thought of that. Acrtually this RAID 1 setup I'm planning > is for my desktop machine, problem is is's not built like a server so there is not the traditional > slid in bay for a second PS as do many 1 and 2u rack servers have. Unless there is some > specialty product available that somehow fits in to a tower case. > > Could you reccomend a redundant PS for a desktop machine (if they exist)? > > The whole system needs to be designed for dual supplies. You can't just plop down two power supplies in parallel without some circuitry that attempts to monitor & balance them out. I'm curious - why does your desktop needs so much redundancy ? -- Toby Bluhm Alltech Medical Systems America, Inc. 30825 Aurora Road Suite 100 Solon Ohio 44139 440-424-2240