John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/30/2014 10:28 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
And APC is the best in my experience. (Of course, there will be a couple of brands with hardware on the same level...)
actually, I'd take an Eaton Powerware (formerly Best Power) over a APC any day.
APC BackUPS grade stuff is strictly cheap consumer gear, I've had dozens of them fail over the years, all different BU models, the battery fails, you put a new battery in and the UPS still won't work. They consistently overcharge the batteries so they die in 2-3 years, when they should last 5+.
The APC SmartUPS stuff is significantly better, but also a lot more expensive.
I think I may have an Eaton, or Compupower, at home. I think most of the consumer-grade ones are similar.
The SmartUPS are... but then, overwhelmingly, mine are rackmount. I have mentioned here, before, though, that at least with the SmartUPS, you can easily, and far less expensively, buy replacement batteries, but they *MUST* be HR (high rate) batteries; anything else, and the SmartUPS don't believe they've been replaced correctly.
Isn't even a price difference - it's just for a different market, and most of the vendors, nor the OEM's reps I've spoken to, know *anything* about this.
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