2025-09-24 20:18 UTC
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@greem@cyberplace.social 2025-09-24 20:29
@Greg@social.coop look for Eaton or APC devices - but for the serial or USB interface you may need a larger model, the small ones often drop that. I've got one of each, the APC needs a new battery (despite "NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE") and has no monitoring; the Eaton has a USB interface.
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@philmck@mastodonapp.uk 2025-09-24 20:35
@Greg@social.coop I had a UPS for my Synology NAS for years, rarely needed. A few years in we had a power cut and I discovered the hard way that the battery had almost no capacity left, but the NAS was fine. I replaced the battery. A few years later the UPS emitted a puff of magic smoke and died. It was an APC model. I decided I'd rather live with the risk of disk corruption than a fire risk so I haven't replaced it. Later the disk did die, but I think it was due to a burst of EMC from the router next to the NAS. I reformatted the disk in a PC and it was fine. But I lost my data. Since I use the NAS as a backup and fast local media source all the data existed elsewhere and I just repopulated the NAS from there (which took a couple of days). I hope that helps.
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@uyakon@letallmortalfleshfindtheirvoice.social 2025-09-25 03:15
@Greg@social.coop I don't have a specific model to recommend, but I definitely recommend going with APC. Any UPS will have its battery(ies) degrade over time, though, so keep that in mind. And probably test the clean-shutdown functionality once a year or something.