flac_rules

Looking at trying consumer SSDs as an alternative to HDDs on hardware raid. But the raid controller seems to fill the entire disk when the raid is created (at least from the viewpoint of the disk) it uses many hours for creating an array. So it seems to me that from the disks point of view it is full. SSDs don't like being full, can this cause trouble? If so what is the alternative? Storage spaces? (I use windows for other reasons). I know storages spaces have really weak write rates with parity (or used to have), don't know if this works better with SSDs?

I used to have a APC UPS, it worked fine for quite a few years but suddenly stopped working. I heard good things about Eaton, and bought one, but it has been a disaster to be honest. I use it on a fileserver, and the capacity should be good, but when i tried the new one from Eaton it cut power during startup, and restarted the machine several times, maybe some peak power thing, but the APC what 650VA, and the new one is 850VA and the APC worked fine. For some reason it caused some data loss, which is certainly a big drawback when preventing data loss is the main reason for having it in the first place. I had a power failure, and the Eaton seems to have handled shutting down the machine, but after the failure it trips the circuit when it is plugged in. Does anyone have some other UPS to recommend? As of know the UPSes has caused more power outages than just not having one.