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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
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| 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
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