Catastrophic disk failure, where was smartd?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 07:47 -0800, dwight at supercomputer.org wrote:
> I can't tell you how many UPS's I've seen that are supposedly good, 
> but have 5+ year old batteries in them. 

How many let you hot swap a battery?  Surely that's a requirement, to be
able to change an aging component, without having to power down the
computer that it's supply.  It is supposed to be an *uninterrupted*
power supply.

But out of the small number of consumer aimed UPSs that I've actually
been able to see, they're virtually a sealed box.

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