Three comments

Posted Jul 18, 2006 9:04 UTC (Tue) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: Three comments by nix
Parent article: Crash-only software: More than meets the eye

Not at all... it just means that backup power is necessary for a reliable system. Disk drive designers have learned not to pretend they can make a whole system reliable all by themselves, and that (furthermore) the market won't pay for them to try. It doesn't take much backup power; if you can get the CPU's or ATA interface's power to drop out of tolerance a few seconds before the drive's, that may be all you need.