Originally Posted by
Nialler
No. The UPS is more than a bank of batteries. It's an expensive piece of kit which smooths the supply during Brown outs, during spikes and during the absence of any power at all. The electrical input to a properly specced enterprise server should never fluctuate.
But Cruz said that it was a power spike that killed the system, which is the most pathetic lie I have ever heard. Even my small office system that I have used for 25 years to develope my system that I even sold to my ex employer BA has a surge protection and 30 minutes of Back up power supply and real time mirroring.