Apart from wattage and duration what should i look 4 when choosing an uninterrupted power supplie unit?. What makes are the best and what other extra's do they come with like surge protection etc... I've seen them stated as network usb, Whats that mean? I'm running an intel dual core2 clocked to 4 ghz with a 750watt power supplie so guess i need quite a powerful unit. Thanks
You wont need the whole 750 watts. You would do best to get a meter that you plug into the wall socket and measure the computer over a period of 10 days to see what the average electrical use is. Then get a supply based on the difference between your highest demand and the average demand. You will get a meter for about £15 ($25) something like this http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=38343 then be aware of how a UPS is rated - that can catch you out. Make sure you understand what the ratings mean. You also need one that will shut down the computer gracefully after 10 minutes or so, rather than just cutting the power. remember you have to take into account the monitor as well (if its not a laptop) else you wont see anything. I believe you can get some that saves all open documents for you and powers down, but if theyre too expensive you'll need 10 mins and your monitor plugged in
Not a bad piece of kit that meter, would be nice to know what all my electric is actually going on lol. I was think more like 30mins and 3 or outlets coz i do alot of live music recording and the open file saving would be a bonus too.
i just got a APC ups about two months ago and its great. its an apc back-ups RS 900. it comes with a usb cable and software which let you configure it, it will hibernate your computer when it gets low, which saves everything as it is. it will event tell you how many watts of energy the things you have plugged into it are using. i got it for 92 bucks shipped on ebay new. so if you just keep an eye out on ending soon items, you can usually get a pretty good deal. (it powers the three servers in the middle and all the other essential networking equipment, using a total of 318 watts.)
That's a nice setup. That is the best looking rack I've seen. It would be sweet with some finish. I notice a GUI running on something. What do you use 3 servers for? jw APC units are great.
thanks! theres plans for finishing it, adding removable sides and a front door, eventually. the top server is running freeNAS, just for misc file storage. the second down is my web server running server 03, php, mysql, active perl, apache, and utorrent. the next is my newest, i cant decide on a final os for it, its a gonna be my main file server (has 1.6TB hdd storage) im teetering between server 08 or netware... my main drawback to microsoft is that for some reason, my file shares take about 30 seconds to initialize the tcp connection and open, im having difficulty figuring this one out. also when you delete files across the network they cant be salvaged. my only problems with netware are that i cant get native file access to authenticate my user, and i cant recover files from a NWFS volume if somthing happens to the drive etc. the server below runs server 03, and weather display which gathers data from my weather instruments on top of my house, compiles a website and uploads it to the web server http://75.182.87.240/weather. lastly the bottom server is running netware 6.5 sp7, reliably and quickly serving files and imaging computers. i mainly have these because its a "learning experience" iv learned alot of stuff from working with them, and having a sandbox server will be nice to test things with for some of the classes i will be taking next semester.
Impressive. You should test out Linux as a file server. Samba can work miracles, has authentication and encryption. You don't have to understand command line anymore to run Linux. It is a big plus though, and it is easier to copy-paste a command. You can actually install Linux with a GUI, configure the server, then remove the GUI packages and still remotely configure it with a GUI. Linux has recently taken leaps toward easier managing. Also, if you place an infected Windows file on the server, it will not affect the server at all. No virus scanners eating away resources and cash. Webmin is what you want to use. Here's some images (google image search) of the Webmin GUI: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=webmin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi Test out a newer release of Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, or possibly Debian. Please don't run Netware lol
why you gotta hate on netware haha? i have fedora core 4 on my old laptop dual boot with xp. im just finishing a class "linux single user" and i must say i do prefer linux command line. fedoras alright, but installing stuff is still somewhat of a pain. iv yet to try ubuntu but i think i'll download an iso now. also, i figured out my ms file sharing problem; never noticed the advanced button when your in network connections. it was searching my other adaptors and protocols first.
O yes, installing apps on Fedora Core 4 is indeed a pain. With Fedora 8/9 (note: they dropped the "Core"), you can install from a list of several repositories. This is done via GUI or CLI and it's very easy. You can also add repositories such as Livna (great for the legal, non-free stuff). For example, the command to install Webmin in Fedora would be: That's it! Fedora/Redhat had been my native desktop for years. Currently, using Arch Linux 23/7.
Ubuntu is pretty good stuff, the 8.10 version I just changed to tonight finally has support for dual monitors, which is just geektastic. A pretty solid "new to linux" version, I highly reccomend giving it a try.
Hey it's great to hear Ubuntu makes dual monitor support easier now. Dual monitors has been supported by X11 (graphical manager behind Gnome/KDE) for quite a while. My first dual monitor configuration was slightly annoying, but I had previous experience editing the xorg.conf file. No probs with it. Really, it's just a matter of auto-detection for the normal users.
i installed ubuntu on a virtual machine a few days ago per adderall_assasin's reccomendation... its an interesting distro, but still no XP.
