APC Rack PDU, 2G, metered by outlet, with switching, 0U, 30A, 200V and 208V, 21 C13 and 3 C19 sockets

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

At a chunky £1,616.72 ex‑VAT, this APC metered rack PDU is only “good value” if you actually need outlet-level visibility and the ability to remotely control power. If you’re running a busy rack with lots of intermittent problems (failures, flaky PSUs, out-of-hours reboots) this is the kind of PDU that saves time and avoids awkward “pull the wrong cable and hope” moments. The switching plus metering is also genuinely useful for planning—seeing real draw per circuit/outlet helps with capacity and can prevent unpleasant surprises as you scale.

That said, if you’re a simple shop with a small number of servers and you’re not actively troubleshooting or managing power remotely, this is probably overkill. You can get plenty of non-switched, non-metered options that do the job with far less risk to the budget—and the “metered” part won’t pay for itself unless someone will check it and act on it. I’d buy this for datacentre-adjacent environments, managed services, or any reseller/internal ops team that supports multiple customer racks where downtime costs real money; I wouldn’t buy it for a basic single-rack deployment where operational discipline is low.