Back-UPS garbage? (was: Quick survey -- UPSs on slave nodes?)
Drew Raines
drew-list-beowulf at poured.net
Tue Feb 11 08:02:14 PST 2003
<alvin at Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Drew Raines wrote:
>>
>> I assume you're referring to the ``Back-UPS'' line.
[...]
> but there are also other equivalents at the same price range
> that actually works ... sustaining for about 15-20 minutes
[...]
> you cant give me an APC anymore and expect a critical server
> to be plugged into it and expect it to stay up during power outage
> ( can you can see the graveyard of dead apc's )
What are the alternatives? Do you mean in the ``glorified surge
protector'' market, or in the overall UPS category? I haven't seen
anything competing with APC in the latter, and possibly one or too
in the former..
I'd love to know experiences with specific models.
-Drew
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