"They all suck!" Re: UPS failure modes (was: fire at NAC)

E.B. Dreger eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net
Thu May 29 23:37:58 UTC 2003


SD> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:53:43 -0400 (EDT)
SD> From: Sean Donelan


SD> Yep, tieing together "redundant" systems with parelleling
SD> gears turns two independent systems into one "co-dependent"
SD> system.  In a failure situation, you want to compartmentalize
SD> the failure.  Loosing half your systems may be better than
SD> loosing all your systems.

Too bad a substantial amount of equipment doesn't allow for
redundant plugins.  The ability to plug { servers | routers |
whatever } into two totally separate power feeds is nice.

Anyone for building a rackmount transfer switch for two inputs?
Assuming it didn't fail (!) -- would the economies of scale work
for or against it compared to big transfer switches?  Between
dealing with _much_ smaller current levels and the opportunity
for mass production, what are the chances of something like this
working?


Eddy
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