Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> writes:

> On 12/19/2010 1:39 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
> > I haven't heard of a flash caching raid card (yet).
> > 
> > Other than the hassle of occasional battery replacement, battery backup has
> > little problems, in my experience.
> > The flash could have issue with the volume of writes that occur to it.
> 
> The one problem would be the batteries only last a few days without
> power. If you have an extended power outage, you'd want to be very sure
> you cleanly shutdown all your servers.

Oh man, I'm wholly unprepared for a few days downtime in so many 
ways.  The best plan, I think, would be to load the shit up in my van and
truck it to a new data center.   But my BGP is still 'experimental' and
only at one location, so that'd mean renumbering, which would be 
rather bad, I think, for my customer retention rate.  

But eh, yeah, maybe I should broaden my mind and include battery
backed ram as well as cache on flash in my evaluation.  

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