Stonelesscutter

Thanks again! I checked out the other UPS models on their UK website and it seems they offer far less variety than for the US models. They do offer bigger ones, but that price range gets way out of my league and those products appear to be geared more towards enterprises. Of the lower class models, the one you linked to for example offers 6 UK power sockets, judging from the picture. This range however uses a simulated sine wave, instead of true sine wave like the CP1500EPFCLCD. Also their capacity is lower. This PowerWalker brand you mentioned looks intriguing. The price of that 2000 VA model is a lot lower than the CyberPower model while the power capacity is higher. This definitely warrants looking into some more. Thanks a lot for that one! I suspect the delivered power won't be as "clean" as that of the CyberPower one though.

After looking around some more, I'm thinking the CyberPower CP1500EPFCLCD is probably the best way to go for me. I'll just plug in one or two power strips to plug the devices into. The computers could probably be plugged into those IEC ports directly if I get the appropriate cables. What I'm wondering about now is those Ethernet ports on the UPS. Apparently they offer surge protection as well and they're 1 Gb ports. What I'm not getting is what to use them for and how to use them. If the router is already connected to a surge protected power socket, are the network cables attached to that router not already safe? Are you supposed to plug your main router into one port and then plug another router (which would hold all the connected devices) into the other port, thereby protecting all devices but the main router? Or are these ports just for the communication with the computers to implement the shutdown commands? If it is that last case, how would I connect the computers to the router if the Ethernet port is already taken up by the UPS?

I was looking at a Cyberpower UPS already, this one... https://www.cyberpower.com/uk/en/product/sku/cp1500epfclcd-uk#specification But this UK version seems to only offer two regular power (UK-style) power sockets and four IEC C13 sockets, the latter of which aren't used by any of my devices. Preferably I'd find a model with at least 5 regular sockets on power backup + surge protection. That would allow for the two computers, the TV, the PS5 and the router to keep functioning for a while on an outage. The US version however appears to offer eight US-style sockets, four of which offer power backup + surge protection and four only provide surge protection. I suppose I could plug power strips into two two sockets and connect the devices to those, but that seems like a less elegant option. Would you happen to know of any models which offer more UK sockets, like maybe 10 even? (five backed up and five surge protection only for example) Edit: Actually the US version (1500 VA / 1000 W) seems to offer 12 US-style sockets. (https://www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/pfc-sinewave/cp1500pfclcd/)

Thanks! You basically already answered a follow-up question I was gonna ask, if it's possible for a UPS to shut down two separate computers. With "Windows on top of Unraid" I indeed meant in a virtual machine. I've seen people do that, and I was thinking of doing it the same way, but now, after replies I received on the other thread I posted today, I think it would be more sensible to build two separate computers rather than running Windows as a VM. Could you perhaps enlighten me a bit more about this master-client setup you have with your UPS? This UPS with network thing might be something worth looking into for me as well. I would have two PCs running on it but am also thinking about getting a PS5 and hooking that up to the UPS as well, and of course the TV, otherwise I would have no way to see what I'm doing with the computers if the power goes out. I don't know if it makes sense though to have a PS5 on a UPS though. It's not like the data on it would be critical. I'm just afraid that the device could be damaged if it gets shutdown unexpectedly. Or, perhaps two separate UPSs would be an option worth considering, one for the gaming system and one for the Unraid server.

I'm scouting for a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) for my planned build of an Unraid server / gaming PC. Because I have no prior experience with Unraid, some questions came up, which in this case are not specifically hardware related, but because they tie into it I thought this would be the best place to put them. The idea is to run Unraid as the base OS and run Windows 10 on top of it. The build would feature a bunch of hard drives hosting all my media content, but would also feature a fairly beefy CPU and GPU for gaming. Once I complete the project, the total cost will surely run into thousands of pounds, so I thought it would be wise to protect this investment by using a good UPS. But since, as I mentioned, I have no experience with how Unraid works, I currently find myself wondering. Does giving a shutdown command in Windows (in case of power outage) also automatically shut down the Unraid server, or would that require a separate shutdown command? Could a proper shutdown sequence (for both Windows and Unraid) be initiated by a UPS in some way, in case a power outage occurs while I'm sleeping or away? What if a power outage occurs while Unraid is running a parity check or rebuilding a drive, can this process be paused and safely continued or restarted later? If it is possible, how much time would approximately be required (to know how much time the UPS should be able to cover during outage) to safely and properly pause or cancel this process?