Allan Smith said:
Allan,
your welcome and thank you for the comment. As for your failed drive during a power outage..... The best way to protect your drives or any of the other components for that matter... is to have your system on a reputable UPS system say like a APC. Some folks say that a surge protector is good enough.... Ummmm not always. When it comes to a single surge/power blip.... it may be ok... but when it comes to multiple outages within a short period of time and especially ones consecutives one after the other, which is the worst.... your components is at high risk. A UPS system, not only do you have a surge protection in place, but a battery back up as well between you (your pc) and the unstable power source. If the power surge is so bad enough, the UPS system will give up its life before for your PC.
If you still want to use a surge only protection..... do NOT go with the cheapest one even though your wallet demands it.... Also, make sure that your bios settings is set to stay off and not reboot. You dont want for the system to start rebooting and all of the sudden loose power again during the middle of the boot.
Oh... and remember... components can get blowned out even when they are powered off. lol.
Thomas,
Im sorry but what you just said really doesnt change anything. Your saying the same thing but in a different twist. Kinda like some saying "potato" and another saying "po-ta-to" or the idea of a glass half empty or half full..... Its all the same. but then again, everyone does have the right look at it differently.
Raid 0 : loose 1 drive = toast
Raid 10 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another drive = depends ( 2nd drive : if from the fail set = degraded : if from working set = toast )
Raid 5 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another one = toast
Raid 6 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another drive = degraded : loose 3rd = toast
There you go.... another way to look at it.... all still mean the same thing as originally discussed.
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I know this is belated, but I had to comment.
Excellent reading. I recently had 2 drive fail during a power outage, home use. I have been questioning how to avoid this ever since.
Thank you, very much
AWS
Excellent reading. I recently had 2 drive fail during a power outage, home use. I have been questioning how to avoid this ever since.
Thank you, very much
AWS
Allan,
your welcome and thank you for the comment. As for your failed drive during a power outage..... The best way to protect your drives or any of the other components for that matter... is to have your system on a reputable UPS system say like a APC. Some folks say that a surge protector is good enough.... Ummmm not always. When it comes to a single surge/power blip.... it may be ok... but when it comes to multiple outages within a short period of time and especially ones consecutives one after the other, which is the worst.... your components is at high risk. A UPS system, not only do you have a surge protection in place, but a battery back up as well between you (your pc) and the unstable power source. If the power surge is so bad enough, the UPS system will give up its life before for your PC.
If you still want to use a surge only protection..... do NOT go with the cheapest one even though your wallet demands it.... Also, make sure that your bios settings is set to stay off and not reboot. You dont want for the system to start rebooting and all of the sudden loose power again during the middle of the boot.
Oh... and remember... components can get blowned out even when they are powered off. lol.
Thomas,
Im sorry but what you just said really doesnt change anything. Your saying the same thing but in a different twist. Kinda like some saying "potato" and another saying "po-ta-to" or the idea of a glass half empty or half full..... Its all the same. but then again, everyone does have the right look at it differently.
Raid 0 : loose 1 drive = toast
Raid 10 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another drive = depends ( 2nd drive : if from the fail set = degraded : if from working set = toast )
Raid 5 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another one = toast
Raid 6 : loose 1 drive = degraded : loose another drive = degraded : loose 3rd = toast
There you go.... another way to look at it.... all still mean the same thing as originally discussed.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
