Basic Power Distribution Unit vs fancy PDU

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If "It looks like a fancy device that does not deliver UPS features" is true, I'd personally pass on this device.

Give me a simple/separate UPS on every device capable of a few hours battery life over fancy devices any day.

Googling for the description suggests it is an ATS rather than a basic PDU, they are rarely needed since most equipment has dual PSUs anyway to connect to two separate power feeds.

"Super-fast switchover between primary and secondary power sources occurs within milliseconds" so some PSUs will cope with the switchover but others the server will crash anyway. It has individual switched outputs, as it is on Ethernet that is useful for rebooting things remotely if they hang up. Programmable too so you can sequence power up so the routers and switches are up before the servers turn on after a power cut for example. Optional environmental monitoring unit, useful but you have thermal sensors in the servers you can read anyway.

So it's better than a power strip but also costs more.

I would like to point out that while many servers have dual power supplies, a significant majority of networking gear only has a single AC power input. Much Cisco enterprise gear has option for a second DC input, and I have firewalls costing tens of thousands of dollars with a single power supply. I also have newer baby firewalls with dual power supply inputs.

Indeed, on the network side you often provide redundancy by having two switches and two routers instead but still one is powered from left and one from right PDU.

Thank you, this was very helpful.