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Disk Duplicators - HDD / SSD / flash

Hard Disk Duplicators - are mainly used by PC manufacturers to preload the operating system and standard applications onto factory configured PCs.

Because they write at hardware speed, and can load many disks in parallel, the duplicators operate thousands of times faster than software.

As a result of the recession and the shift away from HDDs to SSDs reader interest in HDD duplicators (which are mainly purchased by systems integrators and oems rather than end-users) has declined.

In May 2009 - pageviews on the HDD Duplicators page here on storagesearch.com declined by 22% compared to the year ago period.

In contrast, due to growing user awareness and fears about storage data security, pageviews for Disk Sanitizers (some of which are identical products populated by different firmware) declined only 5% in the same period.

Meanwhile pageviews for the top 5 SSD articles in May 2009 grew 98% year on year.

See also:- Predictions for the 2009 SSD Market
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Addonics Enters Disk Duplicator Market

Editor:- June 10, 2009 - Addonics today announced a family of hard disk duplicators for 2.5" and 3.5 SATA or PATA drives..

Prices start from $249.

Editor's comments:- Addonics's Zebra disk duplicator is the 2nd Zebra in my menagerie directory - Animal Brands in the Storage Market.

The disk duplicator market is not, frankly a great market to be in, at a time when hard disk market revenue is declining by double digit percentages year on year. Addonics says you can use these duplicators for SSDs too. But that won't boost demand because most oems are just going to redeploy the under utilized equipment they've already got - rather than buy new stuff.

Aleratec Launches High Volume USB Flash Duplicators
Chatsworth, CA - March 10, 2009 - Aleratec Inc. announces 2 new USB flash duplicators.

Both the 27 way model (ESP $3,799) and 118 way model (ESP $15,749) can copy up to 33MB/s. Aleratec's President and CEO, Perry Solomon says - "The performance of the duplicators is not degraded when simultaneously copying large numbers flash drives, a common shortcoming in most USB flash drive duplicators." ...Aleratec profile
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