[PLUG] dual power supplies and a switch of UPS'

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Feb 17 00:56:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Charlie Schluting wrote:

> One point of clarification: most servers will use BOTH power supplies at
> ones, in theory reducing the load and making each last longer. Only really
> old braindead systems use the 2nd power supply for "failover."

Charlie,

   I see ads in Linux Journal for rack mount servers with hot-swap power
supplies. How do these fit into your scenario above? Are they sold only to
braindead customers?

Rich

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