Adcadet
Storage Freak
What do people suggest for power protection/distribution for a home lab and home office?
We are doing some basement renovation including a small server room. Unfortunately, when somebody was trying to figure out the circuit breakers they may have repeatedly turned power off/on, and it seems to have fried my modem and router. The server room was *supposed* to be on it's own 20A circuit, but apparently that circuit was later tapped for a laundry room. The modem and router were plugged into simple surge protector (CyberPower CPS1215RMS) which perhaps didn't do it's job (?).
I don't want to go through this again, and being able to maintain the network if we loose power for a few minutes would be a plus. My network infrastructure is a cable modem, Netgate router, and Mikotik switch (CRS5354-48P-2S+2Q+RM -- in theory could go up to 750W) that uses it's POE to power two Raspberry Pis running Pi-hole. I have a few racked servers which I wouldn't hope to keep running for any significant length of time but I suppose getting them to shut down during power interruption would be kind of slick. But keeping the network up during a brief power outage sure would be convenient. And most of all, I don't want to fry more electronics.
Do people still use simple surge protectors on their office equipment?
Any guidance or wisdom would be much appreciated!
We are doing some basement renovation including a small server room. Unfortunately, when somebody was trying to figure out the circuit breakers they may have repeatedly turned power off/on, and it seems to have fried my modem and router. The server room was *supposed* to be on it's own 20A circuit, but apparently that circuit was later tapped for a laundry room. The modem and router were plugged into simple surge protector (CyberPower CPS1215RMS) which perhaps didn't do it's job (?).
I don't want to go through this again, and being able to maintain the network if we loose power for a few minutes would be a plus. My network infrastructure is a cable modem, Netgate router, and Mikotik switch (CRS5354-48P-2S+2Q+RM -- in theory could go up to 750W) that uses it's POE to power two Raspberry Pis running Pi-hole. I have a few racked servers which I wouldn't hope to keep running for any significant length of time but I suppose getting them to shut down during power interruption would be kind of slick. But keeping the network up during a brief power outage sure would be convenient. And most of all, I don't want to fry more electronics.
Do people still use simple surge protectors on their office equipment?
Any guidance or wisdom would be much appreciated!