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Kajiimagi

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Depends on what you are doing.. the big one I have my PC hooked to can last over an hour doing normal work... 30 minutes or so gaming (my PC has an RTX5090/AMD 7950x3d). It has a 460Wh LiFePO4 Backup Battery and I believe Goldenmate rates the unit at an up time of 30 minutes at 800W. So, long enough to finish a mission/quest or whatever in your game, save, and exit out cleanly :D I've only lost power a few times since I hooked the UPS up and the longest was about 20 minutes and I kept gaming just fine before power was restored. I was about to exit the game when power was restored.

The UPS LiFePO4 batteries are rated for 10+ years and 3000+ full charge cycles. In real world situations you can expect around 8-12 years of life and many LiFePO4 batteries still hold 70-80% capacity at year 10 if it sits in a nice home environment. Storing outdoors in the high heat would drastically degrade the battery life.
Cool. No playing during a power outage more for brown out situations. That price is not unreasonable for that wattage too. Something to think about.

Actually I've lived here almost 12 years now and Tuesday was the 2-3 time power has gone out. Someone took out a major power pole near my house and all the power lines on both sides at around 5am. Wife took shower / did makeup etc by safety lights/my Ryobi flash lights.
 

Intrinsic

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I almost orders a Unifi UNAS 7-bay two days ago as I continue to pre-build my networn rack for the new house. Was weighing the choice or benefit of staying all Unifi or looking at something like a QNAP that could do storage + transcoding for Plex. The primary use would be as whole home media server, not really “back up” for anything.

I could run something like a UNAS plus Minisforum NAB6 to do Plex, that’d be ~$1,000 without drives. Or just go all out and do a QNAP TVS to do everything but then we’re getting close to $3,000.

Probably wait til November either way as none of this is priority right now.
 

Arative

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Ugh, one of my WD Red Plus 8TB just shit the bed in my Synology - the HD prices are crazy now. Last time I had drives die in my old NAS, I bought 5 of these HDs for less than $500 around Oct-2022. A single drive is $350 now. I may just get a single drive and roll the dice, even though all of them were bought at the same time.
You could try an rma through Western digital. I think the red drives have a 5 year limited warranty on it.
 

darkmiasma

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You could try an rma through Western digital. I think the red drives have a 5 year limited warranty on it.

Yesh I tried, they claim my serial number is invalid and even when I give them the order number they say they can’t find it.

I ordered a new drive in the meantime.
 
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