Flash Duplication Systems

Can’t Backup 3TB HDD? If you were among the early adopters of 3TB HDDs, you probably had struggled a bit booting from your new drive unless you had all the right combinations of OS and BIOS to start with. Copying a 3TB HDD with a HDD duplicator could be just as tricky. Similar to the support from your OS, BIOS and HDD driver, a firmware upgrade on a duplicator such as UReach’s 1-1 Pro118 will be required to handle the 3TB challenge. If you’re not yet familiar with the 3TB issue, think about the license plates on all vehicles—if each is allowed only to have exactly 5 digits (0-9 without alphabets) once registered, the maximum number of cars that can be uniquely identified by such license plates will be 10 -power 5=100,000. Similarly, under the limited 32-bit structure adopted in legacy systems to address disk space, there could only be as large as 2.2TB (we’ll spare you the calculation) recognized; therefore, to extend beyond this limit, the addressing scheme has to be improved and agreed upon by all relevant components, which is certainly not a trivial task and unfortunately, not all systems are created equal moving forward.

The USB flash drive versus SD card: they’re small, portable and used to transfer and store files. Their differences are noteworthy, but they are hardly rivals in the world of NAND flash storage. It is important however to distinguish what makes these memory formats unique so that you can use each of them to their fullest potential.
USB flash drive
USB drives are removable storage devices equipped with flash memory capabilities and a USB connector. They are compatible with any system that offers a USB port, including Windows, Mac and Linux. They can store anywhere between 128MB to 256GB of data. While most flash drives use USB 2.0, some newer drives on the market offer USB 3.0 with ten times the data transfer speed that we currently use.
Flash drives offer a unique versatility in that they can be customized from the inside out to promote a brand or educate an audience. Their standard rectangular shape can be transformed into a unique design suited to your purpose. Manufacturers also tend to create flash drives by original shapes and colors in order to stand out to consumers. Nothing is off limits in terms of custom shaped USB drive creativity. How you access the data of a flash drive also makes it different. They can be outfitted with everything from password and virus protection to biometric security.
SD Card
The (Secure Digital) SD card also uses non-volatile memory like flash drives. SD cards are an integral part of many devices including digital cameras, phones, MP3 players and game consoles. The average SD cards offer 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities but can reach up to 32GB. (Lexar recently started shipping 128GB SDXC cards.)
These memory cards look like an asymmetrical, rectangular wafer with contact pins whose physical size ranges between 11mm to 32mm long depending on the type of SD card you are using. SD, miniSD, microSD, SDHC, miniSDHC, microSDHC, SDXC and microSDXC are your available options. Herein lies the biggest disadvantage to SD cards: it lacks the universal compatibility of a flash drive. Not every card slot built in every computer system will read all the cards. As a result, you will likely need to use a card reader.
Flash Drive vs SD Card
There’s not a clear winner in terms of flash memory formats here. On one hand, you can’t operate your multimedia devices without an SD card. On the other hand a USB flash drive is superior in its ability to work seamlessly with your operating system. USB drives also broaden the scope of who can use them and where. Custom USB drives can also be used for the promotion of businesses and organizations alongside your basic data storage and transfers. However, Premium USB recognizes the importance of using SD cards for multimedia and creative professional demands, so we offer SD card duplicators.
You could even argue that the SD card and USB flash drive cannot live without each other—a flash drive needs the images, video and sound that an SD card can provide while an SD card needs the flash drive for backup and readily available access to the files.
Differences between USB flash drive and SD card? Tell us what you’ve discovered about your digital storage.

Flash Duplicator technical solution from Flash Duplication Systems

If you frequently use flash duplicators to copy usb drives, it’s probably not unusual that you have experienced a duplication failure in the middle of the process. Let us assume your duplicators are built with quality, so the culprit is really the USB drive, source or target (or both).For those who really want to know more about the causes, we take this opportunity to share our troubleshooting experiences. Before we dig in, bear in mind that a standard USB drive consists of two chips: controller and NAND flash. And when we conclude a drive is responsible for failed duplication, it’s got to be some glitch over one or a combination of these three: 1) controller; 2) flash; 3) connection in between.To narrow down on the culprit, we advise you to conduct further read/write testing on a PC. With help from flash testing tool such as H2 test, you can repeatedly write and read on your drive to the full capacity. If there’s any bad sector on your drive (interpreted as NAND flash issue), you’ll hardly come through the test; if you experience unpredictable outcome, good runs mixed with failures, it is most likely the controller or its connection to NAND is flawed .Based on our years of experiences supporting customers, flash of inferior quality usually lead to duplication failures, which is why we suggest customers conduct pre-production testing of their flash on their duplicators, and adjust copy speed to accommodate quality discrepancies if necessary. Bottom-line go with flash of known quality to save time and money for the long run!

Flash devices had been drawn into a low-price era since the TLC technology is showed in 2010. However, this TLC technology contributes to a knotty situation—”The quality of flash is racing to the bottom”. With the development of nanotechnology, users can buy cheaper & cheaper flash products. In the meanwhile, they also find out these flash products are very unstable and nondurable. U-Reach realizes the need of users and develops a powerful flash inspection function-H3/H5, which is the most effective way for flash inspection.

Scalable flash devices inspection technology breaks the limits of computer
When using computer, there are some popular software which can help users to examine flash devices’ quality, real speed and capacity. However, in terms of big amount and simolicity of operation, computers can’t handle the job of inspecting hundreds of pieces in a short time so quick & easy! For factory or big quantity buyers, it indeed needs a tool for quick inspection on flash devices, and get results in efficiency. H3 executes only reading check, while H5 can do both reading and writing inspection which scan flash quality, detect its bad tracks, check its real reading & writing speed, and find its real capacity. Users can setup the percentage of inspection scope and the limit of error sector for tolerance. The inspection process is totally fulfilled to user’s requirements, and would not be restricted by system condition. This premium inspection tool can help many flash buyers to save time and save risk to know the true condition of the flash devices.

Once again U-Reach are to exhibit at the worlds largest IT fair , CeBIT in Hanover 6-10 March .
You can find us in Hall 2 Hall 2, Stand A37 Main stand. Steve Horan , our Managing Director will be at the stand and would be happy to talk you through some of our new and exciting products.

Intelligent 9 Series The future in Duplication from U-Reach

The new intelligent 9 series flash duplicators have been designed with the priorities of the end user in mind. With office and desk space at a premium the newly designed machines, unit for unit, take up 80% less volume than its predecessor. Standalone and now more portable than ever these user friendly devices also facilitate simple replacement of damaged or broken media ports.
In addition to the many copy, erase and diagnostic functions already associated with our duplication products the new advanced multi core processor offers improved speed and efficiency.
Add on features of the “Golden Model “include automated log reports and A2 fake technology to identify media authenticity.
All our products will be showcased at CEBIT in Hanover March 2012 and the intelligent 9 series will be available from that date .

U-Reach, the Taipei based Duplicator manufacturer, has strengthened its position as one of the world’s leading forces in its sector.
A prominent position in the Nangang Exhibition Hall attracted over five hundred visitors onto its booth.
The iShare series which supports flash to disc duplication was of particular interest, offering yet another stand alone solution to media copying, at speed and in quantity.
Also on show were the flash duplicators. In addition to their copying capabilities customers were able to see their diagnostic features, a necessary tool for successful flash duplication.
As well as its full range of traditional optical duplicators on show the sales team were able to demonstrate the remarkably easy operation of their hand held devices.
U-Reach were also showcasing its latest product the AP 100 copy protect publisher tool which will expand the company’s customer base beyond its already established market.

THis CeBit will see the launch of our new range of Portable Hard Drive Duplicators

U-Reach will be exhibiting the new products at CeBit 2011.

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