A USB Hard Drive Duplicator
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 12/29/2014 1:00:00 AM
For people who like to make backups... of their backups
As many of you know, I'm a big fan of backups. As somebody who's been in the tech industry for over 30 years, I've seen a lot of computers and backups systems fail, so I can't stress enough how important backups are to me. So, I make a lot of backups, and yes, backups of my backups.
Here's the thing. When you back up your internal hard drive, naturally, you are tying up your computer. But, there's no reason why you need to tie up your computer to back up an external drive, but that's exactly what you do when you back one up.
To me, a simple solution is to buy a USB hard drive duplicator. But wait! There's no such thing.
If you look around, you'll find hard drive duplicators, but those devices only work with hard drives that are not inside a case. You'll also find USB Flash Drive duplicators, but those devices can only back up small Flash Drives.
As a rule of thumb, when you know something doesn't exist, that you would buy yourself, there are others who would do likewise, and there's at least some market for somebody to tap into.
Ideally, I think a device like this can work two different ways. Either a one button copier, that simply copies everything from the original to the empty drive, sector by sector... or a more advanced model that has the ability to read the filesystem itself, and copy only the files that have changed. The latter version would require a faster CPU and enough memory to boot a lightweight version of Linux.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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