> In our experience, administrators are overwhelmingly likely not to notice when a hardware controller's cache batteries fail. Frequently, those administrators

> In our experience, administrators are overwhelmingly likely not to notice when a hardware controller's cache batteries fail. Frequently, those administrators will still be operating their systems at reduced performance and reliability levels for years afterward. Can anyone else weigh in on this claim? In the two jobs where I've been responsible for such equipment, monitoring both the performance and battery status was pretty critical and done with due care and focus.