Mac laptops and UPS

Hi,

I have a MacBook Air M1 with Big Sur plugged by USB to an APC Back-UPS 700VA and an USB3 RAID5 hard drive connected to the MBA.

When I have a power breackdown, I need to stop the laptop (even if it has a battery) when the UPS battery enter its critical level because my RAID5 HD really doesn't like that...

I thought it was like my previous machine (an iMac) but when I look in the battery sys pref, there is no UPS option to shutdown the MBA M1 :

However, this option seems to exist.

Any idea ?

Thx.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.5

Posted on Nov 16, 2021 9:55 AM

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