Trusted to protect critical data and equipment from power problems by supplying clean and reliable network grade power. In addition to legendary reliability and manageability, this UPS has extremely high efficiency at low, medium and high load levels making it ideal for today's multi core or virtual servers that have varying load consumption.
I purchased this unit in Jan 2011 after a long search for a UPS that would have a long run-time at minimal load. I use the unit as backup power for my home networking equipment: a cable modem, Soekris net5501 (firewall/router), Linksys WRT300N, and power-over-ethernet (POE) injectors for my VoIP phones.The UPS is kept in a small closet adjacent to my office. During normal operation (i.e. when running off main power), it's completely silent. And it runs very cool...
I was getting frequent 5-10 second brown outs in my community and it was causing havoc with my mirrored RAID disk array when my PC would loose power; would take 3 hours to rebuild and verify data integrity. My PC has a newer Active PFC power supply and would not work with my older UPS which did not output a pure sine wave. I also usually have one or two other dedicated servers I use for software development.Did some research and settled on this APC UPS. The UPS ..
