How much battery life does it offer while broadcasting with a bus powered hard drive connected (i.e. Western Digital Passport, Seagate GoFlex, etc. )?
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I had it running fairly constantly with my portable Passport for about 4 hrs and it used about 3/4 of the charge...so between 5-6 hrs would be my guess.
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I am using USB 3 and performance is reasonable. Using Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces with full parity, I am getting ~20-40 MB/sec throughput on writes. I would recommend it for archive and backups. Not sure about the throughput yet for something like an active media server.
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Do the external drives to be connected to the hub have their own power source? If they are intended to run off of the power of the hub, you may have problems. This is my speculation based on the note under the product description stating the product should not be used with WD passport hard drives. I have several of those, each 1TB, and they run off the power of the hub. Currently, they are plugged into USB 2.0 ports, but they are USB 3.0 compatible products used as "backwards compatible," and run very slowly with USB 2.0, but they run. With USB 3.0, there is evidently a reason they are not supposed to be used. So, I would say it depends on whether the external hard drives have their own power source and, specifically, if they are WD passport drives, the product information I saw said they should not be used with this hub.
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I've mostly used it on USB, but from time to time it comes unplugged and I dont notice til days later that it's still running. I've never attempted to use it for 80 continuous hours, but I'd say it lives atleast 60 before it needs a charge.
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Amazon's page still says it's not available, but I just received mine yesterday (from Amazon). So far, so good. Plug it in, restart your TiVo, and 5-10 minutes later you got a gajillion hours of HD recording (okay, I think it's 240 hours, but still). One little bummer, you can't cart the drive from TiVo to TiVo (or computer) to transfer your shows. It says it records some of the show in the internal drive and some on the external, so no complete shows are on the external. No big deal I guess.
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Ron....no, the hard drive is a plug-n-play, no external power source needed.
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I've owned the PBO about half a year now. What you want to do sounds like not a great idea. The PBO does not use a lot of power, only about 5 watts when it is on, a little more running an internal hard drive, about 1 watt asleep. But you must get rid of that heat and you must not let it get hot from the vehicle or it will cook. Also you must worry about the vehicle vibrations killing the hard drive, or pay a lot for SSD. Or just using USB flash drives might be more practical? If you are handy and do try to put it in enclosed space with some external ventilation you could run it bare with no case to help heat out or at least drill holes in the metal case. Just need to protect it from dust dirt and liquids then...
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Tested with a WD Passport USB 3.0 2TB 2.5" drive. It seems to power it, though it turned off after 6 or 8 seconds the first time. After powering off, it came back on, my device said it detected mass USB storage, but there are no new mount points created, probably because the drive is formatted in NTFS and not exFAT or whatever it needs to be.
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RE: FriedhoffJust a friendly reminder: HD level performance w/ GN40 means battery life will drop. Likely a lot. Link above shows current set up consumes 8W whereas GN40 setup consumes 14W... That *roughly* translates to only 40% drop in battery life, so 9 hours would become 5 hours!
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I don't think the USB port can provide enough power to run a hard drive. You might end up having slow rpms on your HD, therefore decreasing performance. If it's not plugged on the network, best way out is to plug a big-fat flash drive with your movies.
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I installed the 500 G into my 2008 MacBook Pro on 3/28/12. It's quiet, fast, and has been excellent. Zero problems. I use the MBP every day running the battery (replaced once) down to 6-15% watching a movie in the evening. AC during the day for full recharge. Does the HD run all the time? I really don't know. I can't hear it. I have four 500 G externals that are used for backups (but not often enough :-( ). They are WD devices and I've have no problems with them either. I like the 500 size over any T sizes for reasons of redundancy. I double info onto the 500s, i.e. two 500s for the same back-up, thus if one goes down, I have a dupe. More than you wanted to know.
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No power source is required.use the included usb cable to connect the hard drive to the computer.
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I've only used mine as far as about 30' away down the drive. It's been very responsive w/ no issues at all. I'd have a look at the manual to see if you can change your frequency settings or look for something (like a security system or invisible dog fence, etc.) that may be causing interference w/ the signal. If none of that works, I'd then consider a replacement battery.
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Have had this laptop just a week, so I can't give a very knowledgeable answer. The solid state drive should help extend use time before needing to be recharged. I'm sure it will be at least 5 hours.
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I have the WD My Passport Ultra 1TB Portable External Hard Drive USB 3.0 with Auto and Cloud Backup - Black (WDBZFP0010BBK-NESN) and it works great with the Inateck.
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Sorry, but the one I purchased just want out of its warranty and it died on me 1 week later. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS DRIVE FOR IMPORTANT DATA.When I now plug it in, all I hear is a click, click, click, so it is dead. I will never purchase another one of these!
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I've had mine ever since they came out early on, and Its has been turned on ever since I purchased it. Through out my years of experience, turning the hard drives off/on is more harm full than just leaving it on. I would say that my WD My Book 2TB has been on since I originally plugged it up. Do not by Seagate or Matrox. WD never gives up on me or at work. However, connect it up to a UPS black out , power strikes, and brown outs will hurt the drive worse than anything else you can allow to happen. Good Luck