Solid state drives

[Mike Woods]

Quoting "Paul Makepeace" <paulm at paulm.com>:

> I wonder how big the intersection of datacenters that don't have halon
> AND are served by a fire dept that's using water rather than CO2 to
> extinguish electrical fires is.
>
> Google machines have per-machine UPS which works pretty well for a
> number of reasons,
> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/01/efficient-ups-aids-googles-extreme-pue/

Slightly ot but the per-machine thing reminds me of a product that was  
available many, many years ago which was an internal ups, it aws  
effectivally an atx psu with a battery that was installed into one of  
the machines 5.25" drive bays.

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Mike Woods
Full of squishy cynicism