Tuesday, May 24th 2016

FSP Readies a Redundant PSU for Standard ATX Desktops

Fortron's channel brand FSP is ready with a unique new redundant power supply for standard ATX desktops. The new Twins Series PSU is an ATX-size box that encloses two hot-swappable 500W server-grade PSUs, with internal circuitry that maintains redundancy. The PSU further interfaces with your OS, giving you control over redundancy, monitoring, and programmable alerts. The PSU is ideal for home-servers and workstations with <500W power draw. Each of the two included subunits features 40 mm server-grade fans. FSP plans to reveal more information at its 2016 Computex exhibit.
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#26
Aquinus
Resident Wat-man
DeathtoGnomesThey dont use full towers for backups anymore, most Home -"stuff" use NAS/cloud units (they've come down in price a lot ).
Backup gateway server not a backup storage server.
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#27
yogurt_21
what server towers are these that don't already support redundant psu's? HP tower redundant, Dell tower redundant, supermicro build it yourself? redundant.

This seems like a product for a standard atx desktop or workstation. Mission critical either of those aren't.

Or its for cheap as cheap can be companies who think they don't need to pay for server hardware to get server performance and reliability

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219032

something like that.
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#28
Nokiron
AquinusDepends on the demands of the company. I could see a tower chassis easily being a backup gateway server that's on a rack. The backup server is almost never running so, you don't want to take up rack space but, on the same token, you want to have a backup in case something happens to the real thing.
Im not so sure, as mentioned before what's the point of this then? Everything already comes with redundancy provided.
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#29
geon2k2
yogurt_21Or its for cheap as cheap can be companies who think they don't need to pay for server hardware to get server performance and reliability
Sorry, couldn't resist, but that is Google :)

They've been using mostly regular computers with some modifications for years, however they have so many that there is no issue if one fails. They don't have mainframe or super computers.
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#30
xvi
I've been looking at Open Compute Project's designs and really like what they've done. I could have sworn I saw them include a small battery for each server to help keep the server up for small outages (and probably keep ripple down too).
www.opencompute.org/
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