[plug] Good desktop UPS for Linux with graceful shutdown

[Craig Ringer]

Chris Caston wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just had the power go out when I was deep in my work.
> 
> I need a UPS that would allow about 30 seconds (it usually only goes off
> for about a second or so here) worth of power to a Linux machine with a
> 450w PSU, a XP Machine with a 350w PSU that usually sits on hibernate
> and a 17" CRT monitor.

I recently selected a PowerWare 2000VA UPS with a network expansion card 
for work, and I've been very happy with it. It'll happily just sent an 
SNMP trap to the system to initiate a graceful shutdown, and it works 
easily with multiple machines. As a handy side-effect, with the network 
card it provides a built-in switch for a private "system management" 
network.

2000VA would be *WAY* overkill for your needs, but I thought I'd point 
out that PowerWare's double-conversion UPSs seem to be very solid 
beasts. I'm not sure how far down the range they go, or what their lower 
end stuff is like, though.

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Craig Ringer