I’m looking for a new UPS to replace an almost 10 years old APC beast that’s having issues, but I’m not sure what to buy.

I’ll be using it to power a small home server and some network equipment in an area where there are occasional power outages (but they last 2-3 hours). My requirements are:

  • 300-600€ range
  • At least 1500VA, 900W
  • Doesn’t make noise unless it’s on battery
  • Must not require proprietary software to monitor it or to calibrate the battery and other basic stuff (if it works with apcupsd or NUT it would be perfect)
  • No weird battery format

What would you recommend?

Thanks!

  • lps2@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    APC is nice in an enterprise-like setup and the management software is really mature. That said, you don’t get much for your money and for a homelab, I’ve been happy with my Tripplite UPS which was about half the cost. I got the expansion battery as well and the whole setup cost me less than $700

  • dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizzaOPEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Got myself an Eaton as many of you suggested. The fan is noisy af but I can probably replace it, other than that it’s perfect.

  • ByteWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    Eaton. Just replaced most of our APC with them and have been pretty impressed so far.