Going for Gold?

 

 Intelligent 9 

Gold or Silver ?

No, we’re not talking about the Olympic medals; instead, it’s about two flavors of U-Reach’s Intelligent 9 flash duplicators: Silver and Gold Series.  We’d like to take this opportunity to explain what differentiates the Gold and the Silver.  For details about Intelligent 9 duplicators for media such as CF, SD/microSD, and USB etc., please visit ureach-usa.com.

With a price tag of 25% higher than the Silver (or base) model, the Gold Series has certainly come with more bells and whistles.  Burn-in testing is one of the major enhancements.  For factories or businesses that are meticulous in the quality of their flash memory cards/drives, this utility helps them pick out the bad apples by continuously writing and verifying data for a desired number of cycles or specified duration (30 min to 30 days).  With models available from 10 to 120 ports, the Gold Series performs burn-in on all ports simultaneously.

Another addition is the logging capability.  For users who need detailed job reports for auditing or trouble-shooting purposes, the Gold Series can store up to 30,000 records and dump them all in a card/drive.  A typical record starts with a sequence number and timestamp, followed by port ID, status and task performed.  In the event a job fails as a result of a bad sector on the media, the location of this sector will also be logged.  Password protection of the log file can also be turned on if necessary.

An additional benefit of logging is to retrieve information that can be tough to gather otherwise.  Take SD930G for example, this Gold Series 30-slot SD/microSD duplicator logs the card IDs (CIDs) of all the SD cards inserted within seconds, which is very beneficial to those who need such information for serialization.

 

In the games of duplication, Gold doesn’t always beat Silver though it does fit the bill for those who need it the most.

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A Sensational Tool to Clone External USB Hard Drives

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.”

Toshiba Lanches Wi-Fi Camera SD Cards

 New Wi-Fi SD Card

This summer Toshiba will launches its new Wi-Fi enabled SD card for cameras.  These cards will let users share their photos immediately, at the time and place when their photos are taken. Up to 10 devices can share the miniature wireless network, that the SD card generates, to download photos from its memory.   The 8GB card is currently available in Japan and sells for about 6,000 Japanese Yen (US $72), while a regular SD card sells for a fraction of that price. 

In the future, Wi-Fi enabled SD cards may be obsolete because digital camera makers are building Wi-Fi features directly into the hardware of the camera.

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Kingston Digital Announces Card Reader with USB 3.0

USB 3.0 Card Reader

In April, Kingston announced that it has updated its MobileLite G3 card reader with USB3.0 support.  The newest MobileLite is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 and supports SD/SDHC/SDXC/microSD, and Memory Stick Pro Duo.  The device is compatible with most operating systems but will not work with Macs.  The MobileLite G3 costs $10 and comes with a two-year warranty and free tech support.

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Garmin Partners with Suzuki

Garmin GPS Navigation in Your Suzuki Vehicle 

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.

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NAB Review

 Thank You for Stopping by Our Booth

 

Last month TeraMotions attended the NAB Trade Show in Las Vegas, NV April 14^th -19^th.    We enjoyed meeting everyone who stopped by our booth.  Reporter James E. O'Neal stopped by our booth to speak with TeraMotions and to snap a few pictures.  O'Neal even featured U-Reach, along with a picture of the U-Reach booth and U-Reach's representative, Faith Her, in his news article for the NAB Show Daily News.  Her is seen here holding U-Reach's copy-protected USBs and behind her are the Intelligent 9 Flash Duplicators that debuted in January of this year.  You can read O'Neal's full article here.

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Recycle This Earth Day Quick Links of the Day

Recycle Your Hard Drive This Earth Day

Earth Day is a great opportunity to remember to recycle.  You can reuse and recycle your old hard drives and here are some helpful links to get you on your way.

HOW TO RECYCLE HARD DRIVES

Hard drives are made mostly of aluminum which is easily recycled.  If you have time to dissemble your hard drive yourself wiki how has a tutorial http://www.wikihow.com/Recycle-Old-Computer-Hard-Drives

If you live in San Diego then the San Diego Recycling Center has free eWaste drop off every weekday http://www.recyclesandiego.org/

You can ship your hard drive to Back Thru The Future Technology Disposal; you pay for shipping and it will be recycled for free http://www.freeharddriverecycling.com/

AND IF YOU'RE CRAFTY

How to recycle your hard drive into a lamp http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Recycle-A-Hard-Drive-To-A-Cool-Lamp/

How to make a clock out of an old hard drive http://tgrounds.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-make-clock-out-of-hard-drive.html