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ReadyNAS RN 204 and UPS
Hi I have recently purchased a RN 204 and looking to ad a UPS. Quite frankly I find all the information rather confusing .... probably says more about me than the info! All I want is a UPS to protect ...
I have two CyberPower units: CP1350AVRLCD and CP1500AVRLCD. Both work with ReadyNAS. I use the 1500 to protect the RN202 and a nearby PC (the Nas is set up to do a graceful shutdown, I never bothered to do that with the PC).
The simplest use case would be to get a UPS, hook the NAS power cable to the UPS and connect a USB cable (the USB cable probably would be provided with the UPS) from the UPS to one of the USB ports on the NAS. Note the port on the UPS must be a USB port (we don't support using serial-to-usb cables). The monitoring of the battery level in the UPS etc. will occur over USB.
There is no need to get a UPS that is managed via SNMP.
If you have multiple NAS you can share the UPS connected via USB to one with the other over your network (obviously the power for both would need to be connected to the UPS and the power for the router/switch would need to be as well for this to work). You can even share the UPS with a PC.
Personally I use a APC UPS, but most UPS units should work.
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