Re: When Your Home Server Dies - a UPS Review

[Richard Challis <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I live in a small rural village and having UPS on our gear has been
very
useful. Including one on the AV gear in the main living room. We use a
1000va one which only gets a little upset when we switch on the power amp.
(Yamaha A1) Which has quite a switch on surge.

The computer gear and two small servers, all run on a separate 5000va one.
Both units have Ethernet monitoring, APC units. This one also runs a DVR
(used to be a Geovision) and supplies the PSU's running the Idratek HA
system.

They have a very high WAF when you are watching TV and you hear the click
of
the ups going on-line and off, knowing that we don't have to reset anything
or fuss with getting back to the same bit of the movie on Blu-ray.

When we used to run a projector this was even more appreciated.

I work from home a fair bit so didn't think of this, but make sure that
your
wife/better half knows how to shut them down if you get a power cut in the
middle of the night, as I was working away in an area with no phone
reception and had a very annoyed voice mail message to greet me in the
morning....

Useful article Mark, thanks - WHS seems to tick more and more boxes for me.
(plus it's the devil you know issue for me as the system I support is all
Windows based)

Cheers

Richard


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, <mal@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>        I've had one since losing a server drive to a power cut.  Had
no
> problems since - I even run my main PC off it too (although that puts
> the battery time down to 5 minutes!)
>
>        At work we have a UPS on every PC (all 300 of them!).  This is
the
> first place I've worked that has had them, and is a legacy of the
> company origins in a rural location with an extremely flaky supply.
> It''s saved us quite a few times though.
>
>        I've also considered getting one for the A/V gear.  During the
> winter snows we had more than 20 power cuts in one evening, and
> that's a real pain in the ass if you have to wait for everything to
> start up (plus the interminable wait for a blu-ray disk to get to the
> first menu).  I borrowd the server UPS for  the TV that night to good
> effect :-)
>
>        Mal
>  On Wed 5/05/10 8:59 AM , Mark McCall lists@xxxxxxx sent:
>         A few days ago we had a 27 minute power outage during a
lightning
>  storm near the Automated Home. Not an unusual occurrence in itself -
>  but this one was to be more significant. After a few days of wailing
>  and nashing of teeth here are the lessons learnt and why we now have
>  an in-expensive but effective UPS on our server...
>  http://bit.ly/9fKoYo [1]
>  M.
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