Cabinets is a good point. I forgot those.
Whats your latest purchase?
- Thread starter Blu
- Start date
I think I got pretty good use out of this so far...... 1272 pages since mid february last year (1187 colour) and I haven't quite had to change the cartridges yet (the colour ones are at 1%ish).
Nice when a product touted as a 1 year supply lives up to it's name.
Relatively inexpensive UPS specifically to give the nas time to shut down during a power failure. Not a ton of VA (850) but should be more than enough to power an N305 + HDD array long enough for an orderly shut-down. Amazon Business had a $30 email discount that worked with it so it ended up being $145 all-in.
Hopefully I can get it to talk to the server. (There is a USB, and some indication online that there are network OS drivers for it)
Edit: Apparently APC and Cyberpower UPS models are compatible and relatively easy to set up.
Last edited:
I have started to use ecoflow river 3 for my UPS, only the river 3 plus have the software to work as a full UPS, they have a 10ms response time, the ones I use are the base model river 3 with a 20ms, they don't talk to the PC so no auto shut down on this model which make them only good for my situation, since I am home all the time well they are on.
The one unit I have backing up my HH4000/Gighub will run the HH for about 16 hours with its 245 watts/hr, but the River 3 plus model has 286 watts/hr, you can buy an add-on to double or even triple this watt/hr and this model comes with the software to operate like a true UPS.
the second unit I have on my HTPC and will run it and the tv for 1.5-2 hrs depending on the idle load, I was worried that 20 ms would be too long but so far it has worked out great yes they cost a little bit more then a cyber/apc UPS but I wait for them to go on sale which makes the price very close to standard UPS, slowly I will be upgrading a few PC's in the house.
just thought I would mention it for others who may want something to hold them over on short term power loss or router backup power.
Are you on fiber? When they first installed fiber here (bell at the time) the tech expressed a lot of doubt that the local node would continue supplying internet in the event of a neighbourhood power outage thus making battery backup of the router useless. Not sure if that was accurate, but it's what he told me. (I used to get a couple of hours worth of wireless when I had cable internet).
I am on fiber and no matter what is happening with the power in my city or cities around me the fiber always works, the blackout last week took out all of Orillia and barrie, the node is about 50 feet from my house, what I heard before setting it up was that as long I can power the HH I will have internet and so far this has been true, all my neighbors who were on dsl/rogers cable didn't have internet.
barrier got most of the city back up the next day, all of Orillia was down for 3 days and the whole southward where I live didn't have power for 5 days, my neighborhood got power back after 7, internet worked the whole time.
Good to hear. I'll probably throw my gigahub on this as well then. Not sure how much time it would give me, but I'll throw the NAS onto it for a while to see what kind of time it estimates for just the NAS and then try it with the gigahub attached to see if it would be worthwhile.
I won't need the NAS up for long during a power outage, probably leave it set to 5 or 10 minutes so that it won't shut down if it's just a short bump.
FYI, I use the HH with only the 10 GB line and wifi. The power draw peaks at 13 watts and normally sits around 11 watts, so you should be able to get a good idea of how long it will run for.
with my APC 600M it would power the HH for about 2 hrs, river 3 for 209$ on sale from amazon gets me 14 hrs at 80% depth of discharge and 16 hrs at 100%, I thought it was pretty good for the cost hence why I switched from the standard UPS's
FYI, I use the HH with only the 10 GB line and wifi. The power draw peaks at 13 watts and normally sits around 11 watts, so you should be able to get a good idea of how long it will run for.
I'd probably just be using the wifi (rather than keeping my internal unifi network up and running) , but we've also got landlines hooked up so that would probably draw a bit as well.
It's not as big of a deal as it used to be since everybody's got enough data on their phones so long as they don't decide to binge watch something like all 9 seasons of 24....
makes sense, I only went this route as our power grid is from the 1950s, which I just found out last week but makes sense since our power is not good, we have full power outages at least once a month, normally only for a couple of hrs but we have dips and brownouts a lot and got I tired of losing internet after 2 hrs lol. We keep every PC on a UPS as we have dirty power in Orillia. We just became part of Hydro One 4 years ago when Orillia Power Generation sold the distribution network to Hydro One and Orillia Power Generation still owns and operates all its power stations, It was advantageous years ago as Orillia produces all its powerI'd probably just be using the wifi (rather than keeping my internal unifi network up and running) , but we've also got landlines hooked up so that would probably draw a bit as well.
It's not as big of a deal as it used to be since everybody's got enough data on their phones so long as they don't decide to binge watch something like all 9 seasons of 24....
xentr_legal_notice_title
xentr_legal_notice_description