On 7/8/2016 05:23, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > Why all this concern about how long a disk (or SSD) drive can stay up > after a power failure? Never had a power supply fail, have you? Or (accidentally) pull the wrong cord? :) > It seems to me that anyone interested in maintaining an important > database would have suitable backup power on their entire systems, > including the disk drives, so they could coast over any power loss. > > I do not have any database that important, but my machine has an APC > Smart-UPS that has 2 1/2 hours of backup time with relatively new > batteries in it. It is so oversize because my previous computer used > much more power than this one does. And if my power company has a brown > out or black out of over 7 seconds, my natural gas fueled backup > generator picks up the load very quickly. > > Am I overlooking something? Yep -- Murphy. And he's a bastard.
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