UPS for Mac Pro
I was looking for some good UPS for my Mac Pro, because I was worried about my RAID array, data on it, etc. Tried to find some power consumption figures, but wasn’t able to find some real numbers. After some research, I gave a try to APC Smart-UPS 3000VA LCD 230V. Here are some numbers, so, you can get a clue what do you really need.
Power Consumption Figures
Following numbers were read from UPS LCD panel. 24” LCD Dell U2410 consumes about 80 W, 27” LCD Dell U2711 consumes about 90 W and finally Mac Pro consumes about 160 W.
It’s not enough to say Mac Pro, you also need to know what’s inside. Here’s the short list - Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 16 GB of RAM, 4x HDD, ATI Radeon HD 4870 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 120.
Power Outage
When I disconnect UPS from power, it says it can feed my Mac Pro and all accessories for almost 2 (yes, two) hours. Never tried it, but I assume it will be for 90 minutes. It’s nice and not expected.
Average UPS load is 11 %.
Mac OS X Integration
No need to worry. It’s enough to connect UPS via USB cable to your Mac and that’s all. Then you can visit System Preferences - Energy Saver and play with UPS settings.
Hope that helps to someone to make a right decision about UPS. This on is pretty solid and have lot of power.
