Recommendation on small business UPS

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  kipps on 20/09/2019 - 15:44

  What’s the power draw? I’d go the Eaton but also think that 2000VA sounds like it might be excessive for 15 mins runtime.

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  Hithere on 20/09/2019 - 16:18

  I've just purchased an Eaton from eBay seller futu_online just for home use and after a couple of tests it's living up to expectations.

  As kipps ^^^^^^ said 2000VA does sound a little bit of an overkill but better too much than not enough maybe.

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    oO0Dam0Oo on 20/09/2019 - 17:27

    What Eaton did you end up getting?

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      Hithere on 20/09/2019 - 17:36

      +1

      I purchased the Eaton 850VA 5E.

      Not as big as you'll need obviously but gives me enough time to shut everything down gracefully.

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  oO0Dam0Oo on 20/09/2019 - 16:47

  Power draw Im not 100% sure however the ability to be able to add more devices like PBX, router & switch would be great.

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  Gnostikos on 20/09/2019 - 20:26

  +1

  I'd also prefer Eaton over APC myself and that is in no small part due to APC being owned by parent company Schneider Electric, who are incompetence and negligence personified, but that's a whole other can of worms.

  I've used both brands in my career as a Sys Admin and as a general rule, the Eaton battery packs are much cheaper to replace, their IPM/monitoring/graceful shutdown software is free and works as advertised (if a little rough in the UI) and I haven't seen any failures amongst their PowerWare range for years.

  Also, what these fellow Sys Admins said here and here.

  There was a time when the only UPSs you saw in most server racks and data centres were APC, but that time has well and truly gone since Schneider acquired them back in 2007.

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  [Deactivated] on 20/09/2019 - 21:14

  +1

  I have done as much research as I can bare at this point.

  Why are you doing your research naked?🤨

  From your list, I would go with the Eaton.

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  jace88 on 20/09/2019 - 21:52

  I don't know much about the $500+ price point you're looking at but I assume you have a way of setting it up so the UPS can automatically trigger a safe shutdown for more than one device since you have a server and NAS?

  I know there's ways using a network monitor or something but that was overkill for me and I ended up only protecting my desktop PC (rather than my NAS) with the Cyberpower NAS. Works fine for my needs but not sure if it'll get you 15mins runtime (1200VA) as it depends on power draw needs.

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    endotherm on 21/09/2019 - 01:14

    Synology NAS will control the UPS.

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  xuqi on 20/09/2019 - 22:12

  APC SMX1500RMI2U