<![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> So . . . how many GNU/Linux fans will it take to pitch in for one of these so they can start sharing the secondary operating system love with others?

Brian Sexton

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> The price is a rather steep, but this would have really come in handy when we installed a lot of custom software and files on USB drives at a former employer. I wrote an installation program to copy files and serialize each unit, but the process still involved a lot of swapping and waiting over several workstations.

Since these can copy files rather than just making binary copies, I wonder if they can also distribute unique files to each drive such as serialized identity files that differ on otherwise identical installations. If not, they should add that feature to a future model.

Brian Sexton

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> behold the new cd replacement!!

seriously have you guys noticed that cars stereos are coming out with usb support?

like what does a 128mb card cost now? like a buck or something? just teh other day i saw a 4 gig sd card on sale for $30 at staples

B1663R

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> bootleggers accross the country will want and probably get one of these!

OG512

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @dontforget: I hear you, each time I go to plug in my flash drive the lanyard never seems to fit in the USB port. I always forget, little metal USB shaped thing goes into the USB port.

These things are so hard to figure out.

GOKOR

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> Wanted: Video of this with the USB humping dogs.

That is all.

TheCyberBob

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> this seems great, but i would hate to have to be the guy to put each flash into all those ports. i can never seem to put one in facing the right way.

dontforget

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @Rabid Penguin: In that case, I think the tighter, the better.

lankysob

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @Deamion: I've never seen a computer with 20 USB ports on it, have you?

FrancesTheMute

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @Deamion:
Problem is, if you're buying this thing, you are probably not going to make just 60 USB dupes. Think: 1000 min, if you have only 500 embedded appliances in the field.

If your handing out / selling the concert you just performed like a poster mentioned above, then you better hope you can daisy-chain these suckers.


hypereric

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> If you're in the market for one of these, you're probably reproducing thousands of USB thumbsticks every day (think picking up recordings of a concert while you're at the concert). This device was made for quick mass production of files.

60 1GB files in 2 minutes? That's 2 seconds per gig. Can your computer do that? Mine takes about 2 minutes for 1GB, never mind 60GB.

Even with three people manning computers it's going to take them 40 minutes to do what this device does in 2. Throw in the break and screw the pooch factor, bump that up to 60 minutes.

Take the operator of this machine and give them a 5 minute leeway for loading unloading and breaks (assuming every disk is filled to capacity). That's 300 disks per hour conservatively.

So sustained we can look at these figures:

300 per hour paying one person
or
60 per hour paying three people

You pick.

worldcoast

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> It looks like it would be a tight fit for 60 of those penis pen drives.

Rabid Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> Is it just me or, wouldn't it be chepper to buy 3 computers with 20 usb ports in each, and pay 3 people to sit there and copy the crap to 20 flash drives? I figure that would take about 5 - 10 min total. Not as fast as this thing, but far better use of $8k.
Or did I miss something...
--Deamion



Deamion

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> I can see why this would be very useful...

I once had to copy the same 1mb file onto 300 128mb memory sticks by hand. it took me about 3 hours! This machine would have saved me, but that was 3 years ago lol

hired_geek

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @blackwand: I was actually just thinking that resume distribution isn't a completely dumb idea. Not much sillier than the card-sized CDs that were popular around the end of the .com era, anyway. How much is a 256MB thumb drive, anyway? It isn't much at this point.

Canthros

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> this could be handy in school/educational environments when teachers distribute material/homework electronically. Though the price should be more like 100$ not 8000$- a ripoff price.

yuriythebest

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> -but I needed 61... :(

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> i know in the medical world, drug companies hand out flash drives with drug information pre-loaded on the drive. this would make it a lot easier for them to load them up.

chaos421

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @legacye: @tamoko: both are really good ideas... I've definetly gotten free USB keys, too bad they didn't have this bad boy to load all their crap onto. So i can delete it once i get home.

blackwand

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> Embedded applications are making a move from CF cards as storage for the OS to USB Flash. This would come in mighty handy.

hypereric

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @legacye:
that makes sense, for the life of me i couldn't figure out why you would need this, who knows?, maybe this will be the start of the end of the cd, as sticks become cheaper, it may become the new way to distribute software as well

godwhacker

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @legacye: Bingo!

tamoko

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @blackwand: At many conferences and exhibitions companies give away free usb drives. This is one way of loading them all with the stuff you delete when you get home! First thing I do when I get a freebie is format it, there's no telling what it's been stuck into!

Empyfree

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @blackwand:

Distribution of albums/concerts on USB flash drives right after the show is over.

legacye

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> Looks something I wouldn't want to fall on.

@blackwand: I dunno maybe one day you can buy USB drive instead of a optical disc of your favorite movie.

Kraftwerker

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> @Pluton: or maybe like that old board game Perfection....

blackwand

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> Can it pop them all at once like a toaster?

Pluton

]]> <![CDATA[Virtual Console Duplicator Copies 60 USB Sticks At Once]]> I'm kinda curious at what kind of applications this can be used for, other than mass porn distribution...

blackwand

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