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We purchased this sold/fulfilled by Amazon during the seasonal sales and have never regretted it. Don't waste any more time trying to get by with a lesser UPS or one from a company that won't back up the UPS with it's own version of insurance protection. (Homeowner's insurance will-NOT help if you/your equipment suffers electrical loss/damages, at least in most cases; YMMV. You owe it to yourself to protect all of your equipment, all of the time, given how much a decent and/or custom system and peripherals would cost to replace. This UPS carries our main PC, with 850-watt EVGA.PSU, Asus M/B with 32 GBs RAM, 4 HDDs, and EVGA video card, dual-Corsair liquid CPU cooler over an AMD FX-8350, 8-140mm fans in push-pull-positive pressure vent-config, an 4K monitor and a dual USB 3.0 dock; the APC UPS never breaks a sweat, and essentially asks for more. After 2 months of 50% capacity and run time, there have only been 3 electrical 'noise events registered, which weren't enough to trip the alarm; very nice. When you configure the UPS, turn the sensitivity all the way up in Power Chute, and remember to check it once a month. If you're in an area with storms, AC power issues (under/over voltage or outages), you really must have to get one of these. We've never been without a UPS, but it's never nice to tempt fate; we shutdown and unplug the system during any lightning stores, and have another similar UPS for TV/AV/router/firewall/LAN/modem. (Wife even has a different brand UPS for her sewing machines). Not bragging, just suggesting, that from 30+ years of experience in building/repairing/replacing systems, it's good practice to test your UPS by fully cycling/depleting the UPS on-board lead-acid battery to the preset reserve when the UPS shuts everything down automatically, for instance at the 5-7% mark, then recharging the battery again fully before powering the system up the next day. If you do this every couple of months, the battery won't grow as weak as quickly so will last longer, whether you plan on purchasing a new unit or just a new replacement battery every 3 years. Some people have reported much longer than 3 years worth of battery life, but this depends on each system, use, electrical demands, etc. YMMV is the rule here. We didn't care for the blank AOC-QC paper test-slip which the factory techs have always attached to the UPS before it leaves the factory for shipment; it was completely unreadable. UPS wanted a photo of it. Self-explanatory guys. Even under bright light and magnification there was nothing that could be made out. Other than that, it's a excellent UPS. The only other legitimate gripe was that APC really needs to fix up their web-site, and make it secure and user-friendly. This is the 21st century; the registration process should be much less painful than what we went through this time and we had to request a link from APC to download the current version of Power Chute; this should come with the UPS on CD, as it used to be in the goold old days. Given the equivalent number of trees consumed vs electricity cost listed in APC's Power-Chute monitoring program, or what it claims we're burning, it does tend to cause a moment of reflection; at least until we consider the vast corporate data-farms running 24/7/265 around the planet; still, we trying to conserve, yet enjoy. This is our personal opinion of this product/purchase; we received nothing in the way of goodies, freebies or other compensation for what we believe to be true, and hope the review helps other Amazonians make appropriate plans to protect their own equipment and make sound purchasing decisions.