I might be a little baised, since I worked for APC as my first job and been a loyal supporter of their UPS's for years, but you just can't beat the quality of the systems, especially the Powerstructure systems, but I have either used or troubleshooted or supported everything from the Backup to Smart Ups to Matrix, Symmetrix and Powerstructure UPS over the last 10+ years, and again you can't beat the quality.
Z Edward Ziots CISSP,MCSA,MCP+I,Security +,Network +,CCA Network Engineer Lifespan Organization 401-639-3505 ezi...@lifespan.org From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 3:18 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: UPSes My overall experience with Tripp-Lite is a product that is designed to be basically disposable. A product designed to last the life of the battery, at most. Poor thermal management, overheating components, and overall low quality components. Whereas APC units (especially SmartUPS models) are built like tanks. Granted I haven't worked with a Tripp-Lite in a bit over 5 years, thats just been the general taste of their products. If you're concerned about money, purchase from refurbups.com. The stuff I've got from them has been basically good as new, aside from some being old stock, usually rs232 instead of usb, for example, but can't beat the prices. A single unit purchase from them of a sizable unit (say a 1000 or 750xl) will offset the cost of that software. Sometimes they sell refurbed models that are well over EOL, but still good, like this one enormous 2200RMXL5U that I got a few years ago. Must weigh at least 150 pounds. Big momma of a UPS. They just dont make single (rackmount) units anymore like that, with massive runtime without additional battery packs. Good prices on battery packs there, though ive searched around and found ragebattery.com to have the best prices on their Rhino branded SLA batteries, which you can buy as cases of batteries and disassemble your old RBC packs and rebuild a new pack in a matter of minutes. Then dump the old batteries off at a local auto parts store. They get paid a bounty so they're usually happy to take them off your hands for free. ________________________________ From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 10:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: UPSes On 16 Apr 2010 at 8:25, Reimer, Mark wrote: > > Hi folks, I've done some (or tried to) research on the differences > between APC Backups vs Smart-UPS, or Tripp Lite SmartPro vs OmniSmart. One > set (Backups and OmniSmart) seem to be almost ½ price of the other set > (Smart-UPS and SmartPro) for the same rated VA/wattage. The only real > difference I can find is manageability. These will be for POE switches in > wiring closets. Any help/experience will be most appreciated. Thanks. FWIW I have both TrippLites and APCs at one client who has bought them here and there. They have not installed the cables or software, and the cables have disappeared. The new TrippLites use standard USB A-to-B cables, while the APCs use proprietary $30 RJ5-to-USB-A cables. A bunch of their APCs are older, with RS-232 interfaces (proprietary APC $32 cable). I'm about to replace most of the units without cables, and the TrippLites are about 20-25% less for the same specs. Does anyone here have experience with their network software? APC wants $280 for a 5-to-25-user version of their network console. TrippLite has a free network console for up to 250 stations. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
