OT: UPS for FreeBSD

[Jon Radel]

On 11/28/14, 8:26 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> I've always found it amazingly absurd that you use a UPS (a bank of
> batteries charged by AC->DC conversion), invert it back to AC, which gets
> converted to DC for the motherboard and peripherals.
>
> But that's just me, probably.

Hardly.  See
http://hightech.lbl.gov/dc-powering/
https://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/the-next-big-thing-for-data-centers-dc-power/
etc.  It's not storming the world, but some are doing it.

--Jon Radel
jon at radel.com


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