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&gt;Thanks Jim
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This will vary wildly on your operating factors. For example, will you have the screen on your laptop on and at what brightness? Will any physical drives be operating or are they SSDs? What processor do you have (older gen Intel i7 chips will shred through the power quickly). Will this also be powering the weather station in any way? What is the temperature and humidity where the unit will be? It becomes a big math equation based on the draw of your connected equipment. Most laptops have a 60-90w power supply, but don't necessarily draw that much at all times. Looking at the manufacturer's provided runtime graph in the product details on Amazon, you can get a rough idea that you would expect well over 90 minutes runtime for a load &lt; 100 watts. I can tell you my desktop computer with i7 chip and LED monitor is showing 122 minutes runtime (untested, unconfirmed) so I would say most laptops would be in the 2-3 hour range.
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If you're having so many regular power failures you should have backup power anyway since that kind of thing is really, really bad for your system. At some point you're absolutely going to lose data or your system will become unstable. - Trust me, I work in IT.
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Depends on the load, mine will go probably 15 min irl. If you're gaming online and the power goes out for a minute or two and comes back you will not be interrupted. But keep in mind these units are made for short term power backup so you have time to shut down without damaging your computer.
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the I/O is slower than you may want. so you have to ask what you want this for. is it backup, or real time I/O over a big pipe?
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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
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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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did not get that a far with it before it broke.. sorry... try someone else.. I sent mine back it stopped loading on to my laptop as a mass storage devise. So outside of the initial 10 or so recordings i transferred to it no more could be placed on it.
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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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I have/am using it. I keep it in a closet behind where my computer is. I ran a long usb cable through the wall. Plan is to bolt it down to prevent theft. The mac mini backs up via the usb. My MacBook Pro is configured to backup over the wireless to the same drive. All works well now. Although it took a while to get the wifi backup to work. I feel a lot better knowing that in a fire, I can dash out and not worry (too much) about losing all my photos, music, and movies. I wish Apple would make time capsule fire and water proof.
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From what I have seen.. it really doesnt need anything more than a working drive..if you could either remove the laptop drive or be able to access it .. from another source.. just like dumping to a USB.. It would seem to work.. yes. The device is very very simple to operate and from the source it walks you through the download.
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I really don't know. I use only one external HD plugged on this device to make backups.
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1. The backup unit can be plugged into any USB 3.0 connection. so what ever computer your plugged into, this device will store information.2. Regards the internet software option that comes with the device, this could be problematic.3. A second possible solution would be to leave the device permanently attached to the desktop, declare it public (shared) to the laptop and point the backup software on the laptop to the public device.4. I use Norton Ghost backup software which will work over a network. validate that your backup software will work over a network for paragraph 3, to work.hope this helps. 1. The backup unit can be plugged into any USB 3.0 connection. so what ever computer your plugged into, this device will store information.2. Regards the internet software option that comes with the device, this could be problematic.3. A second possible solution would be to leave the device permanently attached to the desktop, declare it public (shared) to the laptop and point the backup software on the laptop to the public device.4. I use Norton Ghost backup software which will work over a network. validate that your backup software will work over a network for paragraph... » Read More 1. The backup unit can be plugged into any USB 3.0 connection. so what ever computer your plugged into, this device will store information.2. Regards the internet software option that comes with the device, this could be problematic.3. A second possible solution would be to leave the device permanently attached to the desktop, declare it public (shared) to the laptop and point the backup software on the laptop to the public device.4. I use Norton Ghost backup software which will work over a network. validate that your backup software will work over a network for paragraph 3, to work.hope this helps. « Show Less
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This is a battery backup system for your computer. It don't care what you plug into, it will provide limited battery backup for any Windows system. I use it for telephone backup when we lose power and it will provide power for my magicjack for several hours. However, it will only backup your computer system for a matter of minutes in order for you to shut your system down. And by the way, I never got the "software" from the company that manufactured the backup system. Apparently my system wasn't compatible with their software although we tried many times over several weeks we never got it to work. On the other hand I plugged my system into the backup and it worked perfectly without the software. I'm very satisfied with the battery backup system. It's a batter similar to the battery in your car, but much much smaller. I wish you luck.
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I bought 2 of those. One never worked. The other one warms up when transfering medium size file. I am sur that 64kb of data will jam and burn that little device.
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Your basic questions have been ably answered by others, but I have to agree that I would not recommend this product. For me, it starts out great but drops out after just a little while. The only way I've been able to recover it is to power cycle. Unfortunately, there is insufficient documentation supplied with the unit to know whether I did something wrong during setup or if it's just bad.
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I just got one of these to back up the data on my Win8 laptop. It's as slow as MUD. I connected an external hard drive to the SAME USB port, and it was FAR faster. Avoid at all cost.I'd suggest this as the best alternative (get the 64GB for $50 rather than the 32GB for $45): Mushkin Ventura Pro 64 GB Flash Drive. It is USB3 but works very well on USB2 (and it's fast there too). One Xbox 360 user said it works perfectly (read the comments). Here's the link: Mushkin Ventura Pro 64 GB Flash Drive - MKNUFDVP64GB (Black)
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I have had this unit for over a year, and it works great. The USB drive must be formated as FAT 32. It will power up a 2.5 inch portable USB drive off its USB port.