Eaton 5PX G2 - Netpack - UPS (rack-mountable / external) - AC 200/208/220/230/240 V - 1500 Watt - 1500 VA - 1-phase - 9 Ah - RS-232, USB, Ethernet 10/100/1000 - output connectors: 8 - 2U - black, silver

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

At £1,228 ex-VAT, the Eaton 5PX G2 is priced like a “proper” rack UPS, not an everyday office stopgap. The big draw is the practical feature set for a UK business: rack-mountable footprint, solid runtime for protecting critical gear (switches, servers, storage, core comms), and—most importantly—decent comms options. Ethernet plus USB/RSA-style connectivity means you can integrate it into your monitoring/alerting without faffing around, and the 2U form factor is sensible if you’re keeping things tidy in a comms cabinet or server room.

Who should buy: anyone running small-to-medium infrastructure who needs clean shutdown protection and remote visibility, and wants something Eaton knows how to support reliably in real deployments. This is also a good fit for IT teams that don’t want to lose time diagnosing “why did the server crash” after a brief outage—UPS behaviour and monitoring matter more than marketing numbers. Who should *not* buy it: if your only goal is short-term protection for a single desktop/workstation, you’re overpaying; also, if you already have a larger UPS infrastructure and just need a tiny add-on, this won’t be the best value. In short: worth it when it’s protecting real rack gear and you’ll use the monitoring—hard to justify when it’s just “nice to have” backup.