mattx Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Sad day for me today, I have to turn off one of my NAS boxes that's been up for 980 days. We have a new mains connection happening in the morning so I am in turning stuff off just to be on the safe side as the switch over will be at least 3 hours or so.... I so wanted to get it to 1000 days too.
Hightower Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 On a similar kind of note, can FreeNAS support redundant PSU's?
danrhodes Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Sorry to hear about your loss Matt, our thought are with you and your family, remeber time is a good healer, you no where to come if you need to chat! LOL 1
mattx Posted April 30, 2010 Author Posted April 30, 2010 No idea, I have an old IBM E-server sitting next to me, so may install it on there and test that very theory......
danrhodes Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 On a similar kind of note, can FreeNAS support redundant PSU's? I would imagine if you install it on a machine that has the capability for a redundant psu that the BIOS will handle the change over, not the O/S installed upon it? D
mattx Posted April 30, 2010 Author Posted April 30, 2010 Sorry to hear about your loss Matt, our thought are with you and your family, remeber time is a good healer, you no where to come if you need to chat! LOL Have some rep !!
Hightower Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 No idea, I have an old IBM E-server sitting next to me, so may install it on there and test that very theory...... Why not? After all the good book states, and I quote "Between the hours of 8 and 5, Monday until Thursday thou shall grovel like a dog and like a chicken with no head, run around. But on a Friday, the Sabbath day, thou shall do as you please as it is the day of fish and chips, ale, and relaxation." I would imagine if you install it on a machine that has the capability for a redundant psu that the BIOS will handle the change over, not the O/S installed upon it? Ah, of course. 1
sidewinder Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 I would imagine if you install it on a machine that has the capability for a redundant psu that the BIOS will handle the change over, not the O/S installed upon it? D Same here. Even DOS could 'support' redundant PSU's since its independant of the OS
danrhodes Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Same here. Even DOS could 'support' redundant PSU's since its independant of the OS That's correct sidewinder, it's all handled as part of the BIOS, newer machines can interface with it just as they can with a UPS. Thanks for the rep Matt, I love it when my little green bar thing gets bigger! D
p858snake Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 On a similar kind of note, can FreeNAS support redundant PSU's? Depends on the base operating system and bios its running. I believe the current default is Net-BSD which is apparently meant to change to Debian in the future (so i've been told).
mattx Posted April 30, 2010 Author Posted April 30, 2010 I love it when my little green bar thing gets bigger! Dirty boy.
webman Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Can you not just connect a bunch of UPSs in series?
danrhodes Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Dirty boy. Oh dear, is this how its going down today! ;-)
p858snake Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 Thanks for the rep Matt, I love it when my little green bar thing gets bigger! I'm no doctor.... but I'm pretty sure when it's green.... There is a issue....
danrhodes Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 (edited) I'm no doctor.... but I'm pretty sure when it's green.... There is a issue.... Excellent that made me chuckkle! But I did meat the bar at the left <--------------- Can you not just connect a bunch of UPSs in series? And make one mega UPS, trouble is if you did it in series it would just increase the voltage and blow your systems, however if you put them in paraelle it would just increase the capacity and thus last longer, in theory it should work by just daisy chaining then! Ideas - I have a few old ones I may test this on! Refer to this "Simple" to understand image I found googling! D Edited April 30, 2010 by danrhodes
webman Posted April 30, 2010 Posted April 30, 2010 however if you put them in paraelle it would just increase the capacity and thus last longer, in theory it should work by just daisy chaining then! Sorry, yes, that's what I meant
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