What do you think of the new twins ATX PSUs?

[Patrick]

FSP now sells Twins ATX redundant PSUs FSP Twins 500W Redundant PSU Review

Is anyone looking into these? My take is that I would generally prefer a solid single PSU since I do not have A&B power in the office.

I would love to hear thoughts from others.

 

[TuxDude]

I agree. And though it does look like they have some monitoring abilities over a USB connection, I much prefer having a more complete integration with the rest of the system management (eg. IPMI) for failure notification, monitoring, etc. Probably not easy to integrate their monitoring setup into other 3rd party solutions.

 

[Blinky 42]

A niche market I think they are targeting, but the price isn't horrid for what appears to be a solidly build unit that would be a drop-in for a normal PSU vs the other redundant units I have seen in workstations in the past that required a non-standard PSU mounting.

I can see it for those cases where you have a workstation that has grown over time into something production (file server, has long running DB or rendering jobs etc) and want a less expensive upgrade without going for a full server chassis & motherboard.

Even without full a/b power this could have been useful with some of the international clients I have dealt with where power is a nightmare and any anything but reliable and stable. The ability to put an important workstation on 2 UPS units or just disconnect one supply and plug it into something else (you drag out the extension cord from the generator) makes life much easier.

 

[pyro_]

I think i would prefer regular PSU, if i really want dual UPS for a given machine I can stick it on the Auto Transfer switch which has two UPS attached

 

[Netwerkz101]

I am thinking if you know you need dual power for redundancy, you buy server grade components (chassis + dual power supplies).
Like Blinky42 said...niche.

^^ and mentioned (by pyro) as I was typing my reply ... I considered 2 UPS units + ATS for my lab

I can see myself spending 10% on Phanteks Innovative Computer Hardware Design for use in my lab vs. the FSP offering.

 

[Evan]

Better PSU and a static switch

 

[i386]

I think 50 db might be a little bit loud for an office.

 

[Deslok]

I see these as a great option while building your own servers, but not so useful outside of that off the top of my head, I like the idea though.

 

[wiretap]

This is actually pretty awesome, and a great option to have available for desktop PC's and workstations. Where I work, we have divisional power for redundancy (literally two separate transformers and external grid lines coming from different switch yards). When we take out one division, it has to be a planned evolution with some of our computer equipment that is only on a single division. (non-server stuff not connected to both divisions) This will allow me to keep the PC's up and running with less operator impact. I think I'll order a few dozen of these right now

 

[FlashEngineer]

This is interesting, I think it's worth it for those servers that don't have redundant power supplies, currently my main firewall is on a single consumer (but solid) power supply, would be nice to have one of these in place of it.

 

[mstone]

you'd need a very, very specialized application for this to be useful

 

[Churchill]

Never use it. No point in it for desktop market. Server market maybe if you are running some NAS system and want dual psu's on the cheap.