[Asterisk-Users] UPS for Asterisk

[Michael 'Moose' Dinn]

> And, in fact, some drives *do* have problems with sudden outages.  Some 

Relative to the cost of a cheap UPS, downtime is much much much more
expensive. You can power pretty much any single server you want for ~$150 CDN,
and shut it down cleanly when the power goes out. Compare $150 with the cost
of rebuilding the machine and it's money well spent. That doesn't even
consider the screaming customers.

Every machine I have in the field with a hard disk has a UPS - sometimes only a 350VA UPS,
but a UPS none the less.  The machines that boot from CF cards are a different
story...