What is a Hard Drive Duplicator?
A hard drive duplicator is a stand-alone device used to clone hard drives quickly, easily, and with complete accuracy. It can transfer the data to a new hard drive or store it for archival purposes. A hard drive duplicator might also allow for renaming partitions or remapping drives to avoid corrupted areas where data might be lost. A hard drive duplicator can be a tower-like module capable of cloning several hard drives at once, or a mobile handheld device. Some models require the hard disk to be removed from the PC or laptop and inserted into the hard drive duplicator. Alternately, a 40-pin IDE cable, USB, PCMCIA, or parallel interface comes with many models, providing more flexibility by allowing the user to simply plug the duplicator into the computer. Operating system-independent, the hard drive duplicator works equally well cloning any environment, including Unix, Linux, Windows and Macintosh. It can copy RAID arrays or conventional single or multi-drive systems and reproduce the
