Reccommend a UPS

[Sonic007]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm in need of a new UPS for the server room.

This will need to power the Dell Server, 2 Unifi 24 port POE switches, and a few other little items.

 

What would you recommend?

 

Many thanks.

[BKGarry]

I have been looking into this myself, as our Dell UPS is really starting to not be reliable.

 

There are now Lithium-Ion battery based UPS's which seem to require a lot less space, but I haven't gone into too much detail of everything, as it will be next financial year, and as such I have not looked that far into it.

[Bedders]

We stuck with a 5KVA APC one, to replace a previous one that had a swelled battery and we had to phone the fire brigade when it started smoking. Not a problem with the UPS, I think we just ran the battery past it's life and APC ones don't like that. 

[mrbios]

Ditched APC in favour of Eaton a few years back, I've got a 9PX 5KVA + EBM. Been great so far, would recommend them. Eaton IPM is an additional cost if you want to do shutdown automations, but it's not super expensive. Guessing you'd be looking at a 1500va or 2200va unless there's more devices than you've described.

[Aprice]

I’d go Eaton or Reillo. Over the years had a fair few APCs or rebadged APC units go pop or fail.

[CrootUK]

+1 For Eaton highly recommend. HPE ones are rebranded Eaton.

[Oaktech]

Recently replaced a failed APC unit with a Riello. Very impressed with it.

[network41]

Had Reillo's in my last place ,some pretty big ones in the server rooms and smaller switch cabinet ones . Very reliable

[gszech]

2 x UPS 2U Pro (when it's released)
One for server one for Switches

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/category/integrations-power-tech/products/ups-2u-pro-eu

Edited yesterday at 13:19 by gszech

[StephenPink]

2 minutes ago, gszech said:

UniFi UPS 2U
https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/category/integrations-power-tech/collections/unifi-power-tech-ups/products/ups-2u-eu

 

or

 

UPS 2U Pro (when it's released)

https://uk.store.ui.com/uk/en/category/integrations-power-tech/products/ups-2u-pro-eu

That's what I was about to say - keeping a close eye on these, as the 2U Pro seems VERY good value for money. I'm hoping the range will be expanded soon; both to a slim 1U model for network cabs, and a larger capacity/full length model for server cabs. They support clean server shutdown via NUT apparently *but haven't got one yet to test as too small for my use cases currently