Estimating Volts / Watts When Shopping For A UPS (Animation Workstation)

[julianboolean]

If anybody can help with an estimation, it would be greatly appreciated! My only concern is having a few minutes to shut down safely in the event of an outage, and of course, protection from spikes and lightning strikes. I currently only have a surge protector.

Here's my workstation

Mac Pro 5.1 Tower ( Mid 2010 6-Core 3.33 Ghz, 32GB RAM)

Graphics Card : ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB

PCI Slot 1 : PCIe SSD (Boot Drive)

PCI Slot 2 : PCIe SSD (Photoshop Scratch)

Emergency Boot : Portable FireWire Drive (Bus Powered)

Internal Drives : 5X 7200 RPM Hard Drives

External Drives : 8X 7200 RPM Hard Drives (Two Four Bay External RAID Arrays)

Monitors : Two 30" Apple Cinema Displays

Thanks in advance 😉

 

[Someone Somewhere]

A UPS will not protect from voltage spikes or lightning any more than a decent surge protector.

Voltage should be your local distribution voltage; if you're in the US or Canada it's 110/120V, elsewhere probably 230 or 240V.

Not really sure how much juice you'll need... that mainly depends on what GPUs you've got, and how efficient the displays are.

 

[julianboolean]

A UPS will not protect from voltage spikes or lightning any more than a decent surge protector.

Voltage should be your local distribution voltage; if you're in the US or Canada it's 110/120V, elsewhere probably 230 or 240V.

Not really sure how much juice you'll need... that mainly depends on what GPUs you've got, and how efficient the displays are.

Thanks, much appreciated.

In the meantime I have found a few online tools that will help me estimate the watts needed. None of them have pull down menus that match my system equipment exactly, but they are all estimating in the low to high 700 range. Found out the 2008-2012 ish silver 30" apple cinema display is 150 watts, and I have two of those. So I'm at least 1000 Watts, which implies a 1200-1500 watts supply I think.