The sockets are the consumables of a duplicator just like the tires of a vehicle. After repeatedly inserting and removing flash media you will gradually wear out the socket in a duplicator and a replacement will eventually be required. Since ease of maintenance isn't necessarily a design priority for most duplicators in the market, it can be very labor intensive and time consuming to replace a deteriorated socket - from opening the case, disconnecting cables, to removing boards, then reverse the whole process to complete the task. U-Reach uniquely designed its duplicators to facilitate effortless maintenance. In its Intelligent 9 Duplicator users can easily exchange the sockets in THREE steps which can take less than ONE minute.
With this innovation, anyone can replace a socket thus making maintenance costs associated with the Intelligent 9 Duplicator greatly reduced.
Introduced by U-Reach in CES 2012, the Intelligent 9 USB Series is a standalone USB flash duplicator that packed sophisticated features into a small footprint (about 40% the size of a tower with the same target count). Its ability to clone external USB HDDs/SSDs is what we’d like to focus on here, for other features and more details about the Intelligent 9 USB duplicator, please visit ureach-usa.com.
Unlike most USB flash drives, HDDs usually consist of multiple partitions and thus making it more challenging to analyze data stored. To ensure accurate cloning of USB HDDs, an “external HDD mode” is available and has to be activated on the Intelligent 9 USB duplicator. Furthermore, external USB HDDs consume more power than USB drives during operations (which is why you might see some external HDDs bundled with dual USB connectors to draw power); therefore, if a job requires copying USB HDDs, the Intelligent 9 USB duplicator can be hooked up with additional power adapters to cope with increased power consumption. Different from other solutions which provide USB HDDs cloning as an afterthought, the Intelligent 9 USB duplicator is well designed to accommodate extra power connectors at the back of the unit. Take the 30-port model UB930S for example, two power adapters will be adequate for cloning 29 units of external USB HDDs.
Besides cloning USB HDDs flawlessly, Intelligent 9 USB duplicator also supports a quick-copy mode which skips blank area to speed up copying—incredibly efficient when data occupies only a fraction of a drive with large capacity. For file formats that cannot be recognized, there is a “whole-drive” cloning as the last resort, which is how HFS+ under Mac OS can be handled as the following enthusiastic customer testified—
“I have been running the UB930S day and night for the last two weeks. I have tried one-to-one, one-to-some and one-to-many cloning scenarios for a variety of USB flash drives and the WD My Passport Essential 500GB external hard drive. My application is providing customized class sets of identical drives (images and data) that are refreshed overnight and then reused. I am pleased to announce that the software in the UB930S is easy to use and highly effective for all of the situations that I have tried. I am also pleased that the hardware (including the customized power supply) worked flawlessly. Whenever there was an issue with the source drive, the panel lights and the digital display identified clearly that cloning would not be successful. And whenever there was a problem with one or more of the target drives, both the panel lights and the digital display indicated exactly which drives would not be reliable for cloning. This shows that the UB930S is a sensational tool for cloning both flash drives and hard drives.”
For the
first time ever, Garmin’s navigation and entertainment system will be coming to
the dashboard of Suzuki vehicles. Most
American 2013-model Suzuki vehicles will come with the Garmin navigation and
entertainment voice-enabled system. Garmin’s system will have a 6.1-inch
high-resolution, touch screen display, CD player and radio. The navigation system will also come equipped
with a USB port to transfer travel routes, photos and music and a SD card slot
to easily load map updates.
Scientists at UCLA use lightscribe to develop a new class of supercapacitor; using a graphene coated DVD and lightscribe technology scientist research new power source. http://www.gizmag.com/graphene-supercapacitor/21925/ U-Reach's controllers offer lightscribe burning capabilities. You just choose a picture and the lightscribe burns the image onto the disc. It is good to know that even scientists are putting lightscribe technology to good use.Here is a second article on the subject.
TeraMotions hosted a contest, this February, to win a Sony 8GB USB. To enter, contestants had to go to our Facebook page, answer a quiz question, and enter their email address so that we could contact the winner. We got an overwhelming amount of entries and on Tuesday, February 21st we chose three winners, at random, using random.org.
Congratulations to the three winners
David Gillette
Jessica Pinkstaff
Elizabeth Lonsberry
Since TeraMotions received such a positive response from this contest, TeraMotions plans to do more contests and giveaways in the future. Thank you to all of you who participated and stay tuned for more great contests.
This month TeraMotions will be giving away three, 8GB Sony USB to three lucky winners. To enter, click on the link below to go to our facebook page, answer the quiz, and enter. Click HERE to go to our FACEBOOK page.
The contest will end February 20th at Midnight Pacific Time. After we have contacted all the winners, they will be announced on our facebook page.
Rules:
Must be 18
to enter or have parents permission
Contest open to US and Canada
There will be 3 winners chosen at random
Contest Duration is February 6, 2012 to
February 20, 2012
If you frequently use flash duplicators to copy usb drives, it’s probably not unusual that you have experienced a duplication failure in the middle of the process. Let us assume your duplicators are built with quality, so the culprit is really the USB drive, source or target (or both).For those who really want to know more about the causes, we take this opportunity to share our troubleshooting experiences. Before we dig in, bear in mind that a standard USB drive consists of two chips: controller and NAND flash.
And when we conclude a drive is responsible for failed duplication, it’s got to be some glitch over one or a combination of these three: 1) controller; 2) flash; 3) connection in between.To narrow down on the culprit, we advise you to conduct further read/write testing on a PC. With help from flash testing tool such as H2testw, you can repeatedly write and read on your drive to the full capacity. If there’s any bad sector on your drive (interpreted as NAND flash issue), you’ll hardly come through the test; if you experience unpredictable outcome, good runs mixed with failures, it is most likely the controller or its connection to NAND is flawed. Based on our years of experiences supporting customers, flash of inferior quality usually lead to duplication failures, which is why we suggest customers conduct pre-production testing of their flash on their duplicators, and adjust copy speed to accommodate quality discrepancies if necessary. Bottomline, go with flash of known quality to save time and money for the long run!
