Hey guys, long time since I posted on STH!
Recently one of my APC SMT750RM2U UPS started behaving in a weird manner. First of all I had to empty my SOHO for some remodelling. Upon relocating all equipment, I saw that the run-time on this UPS was < 1 min and battery was <10%... I wasn't sure why since relocating equipment took less than 5 minutes and all servers/switches were shut down/powered off.... Also the UPS'es never runs on batteries (power here is extremely reliable). Anyways, I didn't think too much of it, and re-plugged everything and waited a good hour for the battery to recharge before powering up everything. The battery went up 100% and all was good.
Then a few later, I hear an intermittent beep coming from the UPS. Sure thing, the replace battery light was ON. I ordered a new battery and I am waiting for it. Sounds like the battery was bad after all??? Is it normal after only 5 years? This specific UPS was bought on January 14th 2015.
This incident worried me for a Supermicro SC836 chassis which runs as a storage node. This chassis was purchased used back in 2014. Most of the hardware has been replaced (motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc) but the power system (modules and PDB) are, I believe, from 2008 which makes them 12yo!!
With your experience, am I running a chance of seeing a failure soon? Should I preemptively replace the modules and PDB? Looking on the web, the total cost would be around $500USD...
Recently one of my APC SMT750RM2U UPS started behaving in a weird manner. First of all I had to empty my SOHO for some remodelling. Upon relocating all equipment, I saw that the run-time on this UPS was < 1 min and battery was <10%... I wasn't sure why since relocating equipment took less than 5 minutes and all servers/switches were shut down/powered off.... Also the UPS'es never runs on batteries (power here is extremely reliable). Anyways, I didn't think too much of it, and re-plugged everything and waited a good hour for the battery to recharge before powering up everything. The battery went up 100% and all was good.
Then a few later, I hear an intermittent beep coming from the UPS. Sure thing, the replace battery light was ON. I ordered a new battery and I am waiting for it. Sounds like the battery was bad after all??? Is it normal after only 5 years? This specific UPS was bought on January 14th 2015.
This incident worried me for a Supermicro SC836 chassis which runs as a storage node. This chassis was purchased used back in 2014. Most of the hardware has been replaced (motherboard, CPU, RAM, etc) but the power system (modules and PDB) are, I believe, from 2008 which makes them 12yo!!
With your experience, am I running a chance of seeing a failure soon? Should I preemptively replace the modules and PDB? Looking on the web, the total cost would be around $500USD...