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JMi
Oct 08, 2013Aspirant
File Corruption after power failure.
We use the ReadyNASRNDX4250 as a central repository for our Office files - Word and Excel - opening these files from the NAS and then saving them back to the NAS. However, sometimes there is a power c...
StephenB
Oct 18, 2013Guru - Experienced User
Any pending disk writes can be lost, which can result in a corrupted file system.
JMi wrote: ...I've installed a UPS so that should help but it seems wrong to me that the files should get corrupted in the first place by a power failure.
Arguably the NAS could be better at this. But a UPS is the best way to prevent it.
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