APC Smart-UPS, Line Interactive, 2200VA, Rackmount 2U, 230V, 8x IEC C13+2x IEC C19 outlets, Network Card, AVR, LCD

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

At £2,004 ex-VAT for a 2U rackmount line‑interactive UPS, this APC Smart‑UPS is priced like a “proper” business backup rather than a bargain: you’re paying for something that tends to behave predictably under real site conditions, has good support in the UK channel, and won’t feel like a gamble if the power goes noisy or dips. The AVR and LCD are the practical bits here—useful for monitoring and for understanding what the unit is doing without resorting to guesswork. If you’ve got a small rack (servers, storage, network gear) and you want clean uptime through short outages and bad mains, it’s a sensible choice.

That said, I wouldn’t buy this purely based on the headline VA and expect it to cover everything all night. The “who should buy” is: customers with mission‑critical uptime who can actually size runtimes correctly for their loads, and who value rack integration and manageable monitoring. If you’re running light workloads or you only need protection for a few minutes to ride out brief flickers, you might find better value elsewhere. Also, if you’re expecting long shutdown bridges or very high, steady power draw, you’ll need to look at runtime modelling (or bigger/battery-extended options), otherwise the cost won’t look so clever when you’re staring at a graceful shutdown countdown.