Will only be using it to power my server, so doesn't really need many sockets.
Looking for a UPS <$200 for my NAS
z720 on 12/03/2023 - 23:32
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DS920+ four drives
And for how long do you need it to be able run off a UPS? Do you need an integration where the UPS can trigger the NAS to shutdown if the battery level goes low?
Just want to let it run if there’s power outages. And yes that integration would be good to have.
Here is a list of all compatible UPS: https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=c…
A quick search for your model shows the following two are compatible via the USB port:
1. https://www.mwave.com.au/product/cyberpower-vp700elcd-value-…
2. https://www.mwave.com.au/product/cyberpower-vp1000elcd-value…There are more if you want to go through the results. APC, Cyberpower, Eaton are all popular SOHO brands.
Is UPS an actual thing in (metropolitan) Australia?
I know exactly… one… guy with UPS in Oz, and that's because he's nerded out hardcore and has a slew of rackmounted servers at home.
The rest of us (in tech, but without home racks) just do regular backups instead. Backups are mandatory anyway, so they are not an addition cost, and if there's an OS/corruption problem we just rebuild and restore. In practice, this has happened in my circle once in the past decade (and the friend was in London).
Beats paying however many hundred for a UPS that needs the battery replaced once in a while (lead acid batteries are painfully heavy, lithiums degrade quite rapidly over time)
I don’t know. I recently got one and during my prior research on how they operate, I learned they’re necessary.
How would you suggest I do regular backups?
Btw this is for a home server.
I stopped counting the alerts the UPS sends me when there is a power event such as short outages that last less than a minute, especially in the middle of the night. So if you have valuable data and you want to minimise the risk of data corruption and equipment failure on something running 24/7, yes, then it’s worth it.
Where are you that you get frequent UPS alerts?
A power event that last more than a split second is going to result in machines rebooting which is so obvious that you don't even need UPS alerts.
I am based in metro area. The alerts are not constant every night, but seem to occur few at a time when it happens. Assume the local electricity provider does something at that time of night.
Anyway, I have a NAS connected to the UPS and I certainly don’t want it to reboot randomly when there is a bit of power fluctuation, even a short one. Putting aside the cost/importance of the data, the cost of the NAS and the drives alone are way more than the UPS, so cost/benefit wise is worth it, at least for me. Also the time and effort to replace any faulty equipment out weights the argument for not having a UPS, for me at least.
But at the end of the day everyone has a different use case and a different risk appetite. This is just my 2c.
@[Deactivated]: Thanks for that.
I don't actively monitor incoming power, I just go with "if the router hasn't rebooted, then power must have been fine." I check device uptime every once in a while.
Backups aren't a replacement for UPS and vice versa.
Exactly.
However I would severely question whether a UPS is necessary for the vast majority of home users. A cost:benefit calculation is heavily skewed away from UPS.
On the other hand, backup is absolutely critical. Also generally much easier and cheaper to accomplish.
Backups, either scheduled to a local source (e.g. a USB hard drive) or if the data is important, then to the cloud. If you have a Synology or QNAP (going on the model naming) then there should be plugins that let you upload to a variety of cloud sources. Personally I find Backblaze is cost effective for me.
Obviously, if it's something like a big load of movies, I would not bother as that can be redone with a bit of effort.
If you want to do it cheap (effectively for free), you can set up site to site backups with a friend who has a similar setup, but this is getting a bit into nerd territory.
What model NAS? How many drives?