Customer Ratings & Reviews

After comparing all of the options in the Best Buy lineup, these offered the best value. Great protection, options, and affordability. Its really a steal for everything that's offered. It's a no brainer for anyone who values their investments in their computers and can't afford downtime.

Having used multiple UPS units over the years, I found this one to be the best so far. APC understands the need of the home office user. I especially like the Master power off feature. You can plug your PC into the master outlet and when it goes to sleep there are two other outlets that will turn off a few seconds later. Great for energy savings. I plugged my two monitors and external ESATA Hard Drive into the other two outlets so, my whole system shuts down to save energy. You can easily enable or disable this feature and set the power threshold for the master outlet to match your unit. When the PC comes out of sleep mode, everything else turns on again automatically. Instant switching from AC to battery during a power outage too; my system never sees the change. I'm very pleased with the number of battery and surge protection outlets, a good choice for anyone in my opinion.

This was easy to set up and has kept my pc and peripherals going thru some very scary thunderstorms, protecting them from surges and allowing me time to shut down everything without losing data. It's footprint on my desktop is negligible and I like the little display that shows me the status when power 'events' are occurring.

This is an outstanding uninterrupted power supply. The one I purchased 5 years ago is still going strong without having a battery replacement. This unit was purchased because I felt that the other one was around 2 years past the time when I should have had to get a battery replacement. Best Buy had a sale on this model that brought the price down to just a few dollars more than just a battery replacement, so, I bought it. I love the LCD information display on the front of the unit. I just no longer need to open the software that comes with the unit to get details since important details are already on the front panel. Highly recommended.

If you're looking for a UPS, there are more than a few brands, as well as countless models, to select from. Two of the biggest, most-trusted names are APC and CyberPower. Unfortunately, when it comes to CyberPower, I've had more problems that I care to remember. It's primarily for this reason that, this time around, I decided only APC would do. Unlike most people purchasing UPSs, I wasn't intending on using this one for a computer. While it does have my network HDs, printer, modem, router, & 5-port switch plugged into it, it's primary purpose was for my home theater system. Besides the aforementioned computer-related items, the following are also plugged into it: 55" HDTV, AV receiver, Blu-Ray player, sub-woofer, & Logitech Harmony Home Hub. According to the specs, as published by APC, it provides up to 650W of output. With a 50W output, it can provide 147 minutes of emergency power. Ramp that up to 100W, and you have 64 minutes. Full-power (650W) provides 3 minutes, while half-power (325W) provides 13 minutes. You might be wondering why I'm mentioning these figures. Well, the answer is simple. With every device currently plugged into my unit (a load of 174-175W, or approximately a 26% load), that would provide me approximately 27 minutes of run-time. Now, for those who think that a UPS can't handle the power requirements of a home theater system, that should tell you that this UPS not only CAN handle it, but, in the event of a power outage, it could potentially provide you enough power to finish watching a movie, and safely shut everything down (well, except for the modem, router, and network HDs, which you'd want to maintain power). If you need a UPS, this is an excellent choice.

I added this to my gaming system I just built. I wanted to make sure it was protected by the sporadic power outages. It works great. Does everything it says it does and is easy to install. It's plug and play so you instantly can see the charge on it when you open your windows computer. Has plenty of charge to allow me to shut down my computer properly and also protect from surges.

I bought this APC to replace another brand that didn't work. APC works as intended and has a nice display showing the current power draw so you know when its overloaded. I feel very confident my computer equipment will stay running during a power outage and will also be protected from surges.

I am a IT Manager for my company and we use APC products for server racks and small machines. We have purchased this unit before for company use and purchased it for my home office. Saved me several times. Very easy to set up and use. We switched solely to APC since they have a solid reliability and good tech support. They are great units.

Purchased this unit to replace my old XS 1000, which has provided many years of reliable protection. The new BN1080G has provided excellent protection so far, and is easy to install, and use. The APC- Powerchute software is also very helpful, in monitoring the system.

Does what I need it to - is a power surge and backup should the power fail. Just remember to plug whatever device you're wanting backed up on the correct side - it will be labeled on the outlets. One side of the outlets is for surge protection only, the other side is for surge and backup. That side is the outlets that backup power.

I'm using this APC BN1080G UPS to protect and back up my office CPU, monitor, and external hard drive. I've always protected my equipment with APC products because they are well made, and I'm confident they will prevent surge and power outage protection. This was easy to install and set up. The instructions are easy to follow.

This product was easy to set up to two computers, and less than a week later we had a power outage lasting three hours. The unit kicked in flawlessly and the display clearly showed the available power. Shutting down both computers saved significant power and the APC had plenty of battery backup until power was restored.

great space saver as tower . easy and big display to read and understand power status. good space between outlets to connect power adapters.

Anyone who uses a desktop computer should use a battery backup. In this day and age where computers are left on 24/7 it is a must to protect it. The work that may be involved if you have to reload your computer because of a power failure induced corruption is, to say the least, a task many computer technicians cringe at. This APC battery backup is a powerful device that makes sure you don't lose power in the event of a power outage or "brown out". It runs your computer for up to 120 minutes, giving you plenty of time to manually shut it down correctly. It can also be connected to the computer to automatically shut it down safely. There are other brands out there but APC is well known and to me the best there is. Who do you want to trust your data to - APC or the others?

This battery backup is amazing. It not only is plug and play... but the display is very handy. I had to put this to the test during a recent power outage and my home server stayed up for almost 2 hours until the power came back on. I was able to continue to work uninterrupted.

We have used at least fifty of these. Easy to use, powerful, reliable and a very fair price.

I purchased this APC Battery Backup to protect my 55" Big Screen TV, DVR, DVD Player and Surround Sound Equipment from our Electric Company. Every time we get gusty winds in our area, the power lines knock together and cause our power to go out for about 10 seconds, which is very hard on all electronics in the house. Since purchasing the battery backup, our TV & DVR keep running as if nothing happened. Plugs are spaced out nicely and can even handle transformer plugs without covering the regular plugs & the digital readout of your power consumption is a nice feature.

Terrific packaging. Second-to-none design and manufacturing. Critical safety placards in plain view. User-friendly. Serves as the sole power backup to my portable oxygen generator and my smartphone. Reliable. Small enough to fit easily on the floor behind the passenger seat in our family sedan. Hint: Due to the relatively heavy weight of the APC power backup, recommend purchasing a large heavy-fabric shopping bag or beach bag to carry and store the unit during charge cycles. The bag should have large comfortable handles.

I like the APC UPS system. The display with different settings and monitors is a nice plus. Have had several lightning strikes that knocked out power for short time and the UPS kept the equipment up and running. Got is on sale. This is the best time to purchase.

4-15-2017 ~ I am rating the APC BN1080VA – 650 Watts High. It provides temporary battery power when my Colorado EXCEL utility power is out. Also, it provides protection on my connected equipment, hardware and data during power outages, surges and spikes. The large display gives me the UPS status at a glance with multiple status indicators with load and battery bar graphs. I had replaced a six year old APC750VA – 450 Watts only two weeks prior to an evening of multiple power failures from our Colorado EXCEL power utility (4-11-2017, a car destroyed a power pole and transformer). The new APC BN1080VA held up to the up and down again power bumps and ensuing power outages. My load was 2 - Dell laptops, 1 – HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 printer, 1 – WD external hard drive, 1 – WD My Cloud hard drive, 1 – Xfinity (Comcast) main cable modem, 1 – Xfinity DVR/TV modem, 1 – Insignia 20” TV/Monitor, all on the Master outlets. The UPS handled the surges and allowed me to safely save and power down the PCs, hard drives and TV. The last power outage lasted from 6:30 pm until 2 am. I had muted the alarm beeper which seemed to go off every 30 seconds after realizing this was going to be a long night. The battery lasted 4 hours and 35 minutes with just the Xfinity (Comcast) main cable modem left on the UPS for telephone service. All my equipment was ready and functional the following morning, the APC BN1080VA UPS was fully charged at 100% and registered the "event".