Can I make system back up in one portable hard drive for 5 pcs?

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I have one 1TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive. I have 3 laptops on 2 pcs, can I use one hard drive to back up all 5 computers? Or do I need 5 separate hard drives? Thank you for your attention.

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Providing you have sufficient space then no problem. You can do it without partitioning the drive by making five folders. One for each computers backup.

When I get my new laptop, would using a portable hard drive to store everything help it from getting slow?

John Malko

I've come to notice that all of my past desk tops have progressively slowed over time. Many have told me that it's because the memory is filling up. If I only saved what I really needed on my new laptop and saved music and movie files on a portable hard drive, wouldn't that keep it from bogging down?

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A little.

Most system slowdowns are not caused by over-filled hard drives.

Over a period of time viruses, spyware, uninstalled programs, corrupt data etc are what slows a computer down. Not the data that is stored on it.

So, once the computer starts slowing down, backing up all the data to an external drive and reinstalling windows will bring the computer back to the way it was when you bought it. Nice and fast.

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