I want this to backup a smaller laptop so it keeps my downloads for my weather station.About how long would the unit be my laptop up>Thanks Jim
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Take the AH rating from the UPS and divide by the power consumption of the laptop in Amps. Note that most laptops vary enormously depending on whether the screen is on, how bright, and whether the disk and cpu are active. Best way to find out is get one of those inline power meters used to test generator loads and see what the laptop is drawing in its typical mode. Also, since the laptop already has smart sleep and integral battery you might do better with s large car battery or bigger and a pure sine wave inverter. Connected to a std battery charger...
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absolutely not.....you'll enjoy it....first backup took about 45 minutes..all the rest approx. 12-15 minutes
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Works fine. That is what I too have. I use the Windows 7 Back up program for backing up my computer to the Toshiba Canvio.
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Rich, Need more info. I assume the laptop is not connected to the Internet...? If that's correct, I would save the download to the computer then transfer it to the laptop. Hope this helpsi
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This is unit so slow that only the preposterous expense of it will keep you from smashing it.It's too slow to delete files from. It's too slow to backup to. It's too slow to work from. it's too slow to do much of anything with. You may be able to write data to it at UP to 20MB/s when it's completely new and empty. Once it gets full we're talking like 1-6MB/s, or so slow to reply that your client machine simply drops the network connection assuming it's not there anymore. Right now I'm trying to delete 555 files from one. It's got 416 items left to delete. it has been over 10 minutes.... This is unit so slow that only the preposterous expense of it will keep you from smashing it.It's too slow to delete files from. It's too slow to backup to. It's too slow to work from. it's too slow to do much of anything with. You may be able to write data to it at UP to 20MB/s when it's completely new and empty. Once it gets full we're talking like 1-6MB/s, or so slow to reply that your client machine simply drops the network connection assuming it's not there anymore. Right now I'm trying to delete 555 files from one. It's got 416 items left to delete. it has been over 10 minutes....
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All depends on your setting. If you set it to do continuous backup, t will back up everytime there is a change. You can set thethe programm to back up every time you shut down the computer or once a day at a specific time.
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This is what I want to know too. I think this doesn't have a hard drive otherwise they would list the size of the drive in the specs. One reviewer said he connected it to a portable hard drive. Seems kind of useless if it doesn't have it's own hard drive.
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I'm not sure, because we use it as a battery backup to our server. The times I've needed it, we've gotten at least 2-3 hours of backup for our server before our electricity came back on.
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No, it's for a PC (Desktop Computer) - you need a 2.5 inch drive to install it in a laptop - I would not recommend using it as an external hdd - if you want it for that application I would recommend that you buy an external/portable hdd, it will be safer and work better. Good Luck! RH
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Yes it will work for that. That's the main reason I bought it as well. I've left it on for about 20 hours straight running a clock and charging multiple phones and a tablet and it hasn't run out of juice on me yet. A laptop would probably suck down a little more power though so I'm not sure how much of a difference that would make. *We use ours in our rv when we don't want to have the generator on. It's been the perfect solution.
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It takes a 3.5 hard drive from a tower most laptops are a 2.5 to it will not work..works great and i have had no issues with it i just unplug after backing my pc up once a month...was very helpful after my pc died.... looks to see if someone makes an adapter for a 2.5 to plug into a 3.5..best luck to you and hope it helps
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I guess it depends how long you need it to run in the event of a power failure. If this is your only computer and only need a very short up time before shutting down it may be over kill for you.
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Better than PCs I have had before. Took this unit to Europe for photo backup- I'm guessing 3-4h with two external drives attached. I am running it in the Windows 7 variant- I don't know if W8 uses any more power.
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Well, I did buy this and am not having any issue so far. I use it as a backup disk and carry files. It works fine for me even if I connect it to a USB Hub. I have used it with different Dell Laptops with NO issues.
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Yes I have the same model laptop and it works fine gives a backup of 100-120 mins
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yes, i backed up my old desktop, my laptop and my new desktop. You do need to know what the file size for each item is and whether or not you have space to back them up as well as add in the future. I had a 2.0TB drive and my old files were 1.0 TB so i had space. when you plug in each device it should read which device is connected.
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if you set it up with the utility software it can be set to over write older data. about 8 hours with 32gb