squirrellydw Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
squirrellydw Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 2 green and 4 non green, all future drives will be green and I plan on replacing the non green drives this year. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 The question should really be "how long do you want the server to stay up without mains power" Quote Link to comment
squirrellydw Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 Maybe 5 to 10 minutes at most then have it start the shutdown process. Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
squirrellydw Posted January 18, 2011 Author Share Posted January 18, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
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