What rack mount ups would you buy to support 20 hard drives?  My server is like the 20 drive beast, I just don't have 20 drives in it yet. I am looking to get one eBay.

 

Would this be fine.          670 Watts / 1000 VA

 

Or should I go with         980 Watts / 1440 VA

 

Or something in between?

 

My system spec are in my sig, I do plan on upgrading my CPU very soon to a 2.5 quad

What kind of drives are you running? Green or others? Of course its the only thing I didn't see in your sig so I could pick on you a little. 

2 green and 4 non green,  all future drives will be green and I plan on replacing the non green drives this year.

The question should really be "how long do you want the server to stay up without mains power"

Maybe 5 to 10 minutes at most then have it start the shutdown process.

I bought a second hand one with new batteries a SC 1500VA and I get approx 80 min run time on 6 green drives at the moment so I would say for 5 -10 min either would be fine.

 

Josh

I bought a second hand one with new batteries a SC 1500VA and I get approx 80 min run time on 6 green drives at the moment so I would say for 5 -10 min either would be fine.

 

Josh

 

is this like yours

http://cgi.ebay.com/APC-SC1500-Smart-UPS-SC-Series-1500VA-2U-Rackmount-Tow-/370336151595?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5639c1382b

 

I was looking at this one

http://cgi.ebay.com/APC-Smart-UPS-1000-1000VA-RACKMOUNT-2U-SUA1000RM2U-/350431260819?pt=PCA_UPS&hash=item519754b093

yeah that first one is mine, may be slightly different plugs as mine is australian but about that price. I don't have a kill-a-watt on mine but it seems to be about the same size as yours, only smaller psu, 450W corsair from memory.

 

Josh