Please help recommend me a USP (UK preferably)

[Suse User]

My Server has a surge protected socket, but after the 3rd power cut in 4 days (they're not usually this common) I've decided I really do need a UPS.  Todays outage was only 15 seconds but enough to cause a 470 minute parity chack for the 3rd time this week.

 

So what do I need to buy?

 

My Server has:-

 

17" CRT Screen

650W PSU

Modest VGA Card

1 Gb Ram

Celeron 3.2ghz

12 X IDE HDD

2 X Promise Controller Card

 

What would be an adequate UPS power to go for?  I'm not sure what is reasonable to expect from a UPS, an hour?  30 Minutes?

 

If possible I'd like to choose a make/type that could be compatible with any future UnRaid facility for a clean & safe shutdown script on power loss, so hopefully something fairly default in its command set.

 

UnRaid shutting down properly on power loss is my preferred goal, 2 of this weeks power cuts were many hours and I wasn't here so I don't think a UPS would have kept the system alive, despite all the drives being spun down.

 

Hmmm, there's a thought..... with all the drives spun down why does a parity check need to take place on power loss?

 

Any recommendations on a decent UPS?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark.

[teamhood]

So anyone care to share which UPS they are using? I was going to ask the same question, but I see that there is already a thread created. Is there any way that the UPS will shut down the UnRaid server if power if out?? Thank you

-Mike

[gnollo]

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SC1000&fnl=4607,5&fnl_basket=4607,6c

 

gives you quite some battery life

[foo_fighter]

Any update on which UPS models work with unraid? I'm thinking of getting a cyberpower ups from Fry's since it has serial and usb outputs.