ATEN 32A 8-Outlet 1U Metered PDU + Free Eco PDU Manager Software

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

If you’ve got racks where power monitoring actually matters (shared infrastructure, lots of devices, mixed loads, or you’re trying to reduce “mystery outages”), this ATEN 1U metered PDU is a pretty sensible buy. The headline value isn’t the “8 outlets” part—it’s the fact you can see what each outlet is doing, which makes troubleshooting and capacity planning a lot less painful. The included Eco PDU Manager software is also the right sort of help: it gets you beyond “installed and forgotten” and into something closer to manageable power, especially in small-to-mid environments where you don’t want to bolt on a whole enterprise platform.

That said, I wouldn’t rush into buying it just because it’s metered. At ~£521 ex-VAT, it’s not cheap for only eight outlets, so it suits people with a clear use case: powering a handful of critical items in a managed rack (network gear, VoIP, small server clusters, CCTV/NVR, lab kit) where per-outlet visibility is genuinely useful. If you’re just looking for basic distribution with no monitoring, you’ll likely get better value from a non-metered PDU. Also, if you need lots of ports or heavy expansion, the economics may get tight—this is “targeted monitoring” rather than “big rack power overhaul.”