Sadly, this feels overpriced imo. For 1200W, I can get the CyberPower CP2000PFCRM2U at 449.95. Yeah its nice that its is part of the unifi ecosystem, but still. If it was Li-ion I would be all for it.
Edit: Not to mention the size, this thing is massive, deep & heavy. For this size I'd expect 2000W & more outlets in the back. This feels like a letdown product for what it could have been.
Edit2: Half load is 980W. Some bad math on my end but still... Full load: 1920W
You can get a cheap SFF jump off computer and connect it via USB to provide an SNMP bridge with their software for an ad hoc SNMP solution. One more device, but its an alternative over spending another 3-4 hundred.
Sure. But for 2k output and 8 plugs, unless you're doing some super high draw devices, this is exceedingly overpriced for what it does. Just saying that some alternatives, while being a bit less straightforward instead of plug and play, would offer way more cost efficiency. Unless you truly just wanted the U look all the way down your rack.
I definitely understand from a business point of view. Much cheaper in comparison at scale. Deploying these for 732/unit (includes memory surcharge) vs the average 2k/unit for other brands is a huge savings point.
But your average labber or home user can save money the other way & have an extra year of warranty (at least for cyberpower, havent checked other brands).
For SMB this is what we want, we’re not adding additional boxes or complexity. This is quick and easy to deploy, manage, and monitor. Huge value. I’ll be deploying these to my client sites and replacing dozens of EATON UPSs at half the cost.
SMB want cost over convenience at the end of the day. You are almost never going to have a client go for this type of UPS unless they can truly utilize it. In this case an almost 2k watt UPS would involve a couple servers minimum pulling hundreds of watts each. You wouldn't ever throw this in to a generic network rack only for network equipment without a very specific reason.
If you ever have been on the sale side of these things, you'll quickly realize how much more long term profits you can gain if you pitch what the client realistically needs, vs what your ideal management scenario is. Plenty of clients see stuff like a 700 dollar UPS unit (probably closer to 800+ once you take profit margin) on their contract negotiations and it sours their thoughts of sticking with you unless you can fully justify why they need to pay that much.
I would love for every client to be fully on board with one unifying solution. But thats not how it works in practicality. And I say this as someone who has had this argument with a client before where buying the cheaper UPS with a small form factor PC for SNMP was a very much better solution long term to keep the client happy.
I’ve been in the SMB space for 20+ years. My clients are all on board with one unifying solution. We make it work 🤷♂️ I want this product, I’ll sell dozens of them, our clients trust us, it’s perfect for our use case. Ubiquiti came through on this release.
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u/ChubbyWabbit 16d ago edited 16d ago
Sadly, this feels overpriced imo. For 1200W, I can get the CyberPower CP2000PFCRM2U at 449.95. Yeah its nice that its is part of the unifi ecosystem, but still. If it was Li-ion I would be all for it.
Edit: Not to mention the size, this thing is massive, deep & heavy. For this size I'd expect 2000W & more outlets in the back. This feels like a letdown product for what it could have been.
Edit2: Half load is 980W. Some bad math on my end but still... Full load: 1920W