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UPS supply for heavy duty

AhmedIlyas
By AhmedIlyas
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so my powerful HDET is on 24/7.

Sometimes power does go out in the complex but rarely.

 

I am thinking of getting a UPS that will

 

- alert me if power is off and running from backup supply

- has a runtime of around 30 mins to give me enough time to login remotely and shutdown safely. 

 

Power consumption currently... i am not sure but I have an 800W PSU I think so lets go with that.

 

What do you recommend?

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2 minutes ago, AhmedIlyas said:

Power consumption currently... i am not sure but I have an 800W PSU I think so lets go with that.

what hardware is in it? 800W is in the 2 to 3 GPU territory

-sigh- feeling like I'm being too negative lately

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i7 990x core extreme edition

Nvidia Ti 1080 I think

6 HDD's, 2 of them are SSD in RAID0, 2 others are SSD's and 2 are HDD (spindles).

24GB RAM

10GB NIC

 

I don't do gaming but other enterprisy business stuff.

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38 minutes ago, AhmedIlyas said:

Power consumption currently... i am not sure but I have an 800W PSU I think so lets go with that.

If we went with 800W as your power-draw and a runtime of 30 minutes, you'd be looking at something like a 3000VA or 4000VA UPS. That's gonna be big and expensive.

 

With the above in mind, your PSU's wattage is NOT how much your system draws; it's the maximum it can draw.

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BTW is it ok and safe to keep the UPS plugged into the mains at all times?

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Just now, AhmedIlyas said:

BTW is it ok and safe to keep the UPS plugged into the mains at all times?

Would be a pretty damn useless UPS, if it was unsafe to have it plugged in...

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Agreed. I have seen some UPS state not to plug it in all the time to the mains... which I found weird...

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