We've had the same problems, one somewhat-effective trick has been to
scavenge working batteries from systems we're sending to surplus so we have
our own supply of batteries to swap in. The failure rate is marginally
better than the batteries we've bought from Amazon/Newegg/eBay (as you
note, not g
OT.
Anybody replaced a Perc 6i (or equivalent) BBU battery lately? What did
you use?
Because...
We have a bunch of older servers with Dell Perc RAID controllers. The
BBU batteries are starting to go, one by one. For some of them
Dell still has new batteries, but for the Perc 6i they seem