I need a UPS. Again.
It must be 10 years since we had a power-cut but gone through 2 UPSs and a few batteries in that time. Cyberpower unit this time - need a new battery but the old one has swollen so much it has disrupted the case and it isn't going anywhere. Same issue with the UPS before that - lead acid battery swelling and becoming non-replaceable. Maybe I should lube them with KY at installation...
I've got 1U of space, 2U at a push and a limited depth of 300mm or so. I don't need much up-time - just enough for transients and then a few minutes for the NASes to shutdown. I'm happy for the router and switches to quit on power loss and the Mac mini and mini-PC server don't seem to mind powercuts so much; well, that's why we have backups, right?
Since I last looked for a small UPS the whole Lithium Ion battery UPS has become a thing. APC do a shallow depth 1U that would juice 2 NASes to graceful shutdown (APC Smart-UPS 500VA - SCL500RMI1U) and presumably being an APC it should work with Synology. They are a bit more expensive(!) but may solve my woes with compact lead-acid batteries.
Does anyone have any experience of them?
[Yes, I am now running commando / bareback and trusting to luck but I did remember to turn-off write caching.]
It must be 10 years since we had a power-cut but gone through 2 UPSs and a few batteries in that time. Cyberpower unit this time - need a new battery but the old one has swollen so much it has disrupted the case and it isn't going anywhere. Same issue with the UPS before that - lead acid battery swelling and becoming non-replaceable. Maybe I should lube them with KY at installation...
I've got 1U of space, 2U at a push and a limited depth of 300mm or so. I don't need much up-time - just enough for transients and then a few minutes for the NASes to shutdown. I'm happy for the router and switches to quit on power loss and the Mac mini and mini-PC server don't seem to mind powercuts so much; well, that's why we have backups, right?
Since I last looked for a small UPS the whole Lithium Ion battery UPS has become a thing. APC do a shallow depth 1U that would juice 2 NASes to graceful shutdown (APC Smart-UPS 500VA - SCL500RMI1U) and presumably being an APC it should work with Synology. They are a bit more expensive(!) but may solve my woes with compact lead-acid batteries.
Does anyone have any experience of them?
[Yes, I am now running commando / bareback and trusting to luck but I did remember to turn-off write caching.]