Control 100s of duplication towers from one single source
A fast scalable, DVD/CD Duplication solution providing music studios, video production houses, and archival departments speed and flexibility.
StorDigital Systems, the nation’s leading manufacturer of CD and DVD duplicators and printers, is proud to introduce the new LinkTower X10D range of expandable duplicators. Based on StorDigital’s best selling tower duplication technology the LinkTower offers the opportunity to connect up to 100 tower duplicators together, all operated from a single source.
The StorDigital LinkTower makes investing in a DVD or CD duplication solution more cost effective than ever. By offering the opportunity to expand the duplicator customer can be sure they are investing in the a solution that can aid and sustain their growing business. Since the duplicator modules can be used individually or connected to operate from one source, the requirement for additional manpower is significantly reduced. This ensures reduced initial capital expenditure and effective control over the cost of expansion.
Experienced duplication professionals know that the path to the greatest profit is scalability and flexibility. Only by being able to rapidly meet the fluctuating demands of a seasonal market can you have the confidence to quote on large or fast turn around production jobs. StorDigital LinkTower offers you the potential to upscale your production facility quickly and easily via their seamless X10D expandable duplicator technology.
StorDigital Systems Engineer, David Caunce had this to say, ” The LinkTower is a natural progression for our tower duplicator range. A single tower duplicator might meet your production requirements today, but what about a year from now. The StorDigital LinkTower is an affordable solution that addresses many of our customer concerns re expandability. It makes it easy to step up production and throughput without increasing your labour bill ”
LinkTower Duplicators can work in both standalone and link mode, meaning that that 10 devices can be quickly configured to produce 10 independent jobs of 100 or one large run of 1400. Because the LinkTower Daisy Chain Duplicator uses the same advanced duplication technology as found in the StorDigital Premium range of duplicators you can expect to get perfect DVD and CD copies on time every time. With StorDigital’s LinkTower you have unlimited production power at your finger tips.

StorDigital X10D LinkTower duplicators are available to buy now from CD-writer.com Ltd and StorDigital Systems on 0208 293 0777. Call now to register for your reseller account and start selling the UK’s favourite range of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray Duplicators.
Retail customers can get more information and buy online at www.cd-writer.com/llinktower.html
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For further information contact: Nic Ranshaw

StorDigital Systems, 15 Greenwich Center Business Park,

53 Norman Road, London, SE10 9QF

Telephone: +44 (0)208 293 0777

Fax: +44 (0)208 293 0666

e-mail: nicr@stordigital.com

www: www.stordigital.com

About StorDigital Sytems: StorDigital Systems was founded by CD-writer.com ltd in 2002. They are now a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of specialist DVD, CD and Blu-Ray duplication solutions. The range includes tower copiers, robotic duplicators and automated printers for DVD,CD, Blu-Ray and flash media. You can contact StorDigital Systems online at www.stordigital.com or by calling +44 208 293 0777.
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Ladera Ranch, CA — August 14, 2008 – Nexcopy Inc., a leading manufacturer in USB Duplicator equipment, announced the release of it’s SD200PC, a 20 target SD duplicator system to aid users in bulk data loading to Secure Digital media formats.
The SD200PC is designed for quick and easy data loading to Secure Digital media such as SD cards, miniSD cards and microSD cards. The SD Duplicator is a 20 target system with powerful copy and duplication functions. Users may copy files from a source location on a PC or use the low-level binary copy function to copy a full image from a Secure Digital media source.
“Secure Digital media formats are the leading flash memory type for deployment of field applications to hand-held devices, mobile phones, GPS units and telecommunication devices,” says Greg Morris, President of Nexcopy. “Developing an SD duplicator with powerful copy utilities along with ease-of-use was a request our sales channel had been asking for months. They asked and we delivered.”
The SD200PC is well suited for data loading to flash memory for Palm devices and SmartPhones as the system will also function as a miniSD duplicator through the use of media adapters. The SD duplicator is equally suited for data loading to Blackberry devices, GPS units and mobile phones as the SD200PC will also function as a microSD duplicator through the use of microSD media adapters.
Morris continues, “We paid specific attention to the low-level binary copy function to insure the SD duplicator will duplicate Linux distribution packages for embedded applications and software deployment via Secure Digital media. The unit is a PC based system, and it was important we had some level of support for Linux users. The bit-for-bit copy function provides that support.”
There are more features and benefits to the SD200PC SD Duplicator. Learn more at: http://shop.cd-writer.com/catalog/sd-duplicator-system-to-copy-20-sd-cards-p-102872.html
Nexcopy’s complete line of SD Duplicators and USB Duplicators are available through a world-wide network of authorized resellers.

A solid-state drive is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. Unlike flash-based memory cards, an SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in most applications. There are two kinds of SSDs: flash-memory based ones and SRAM or DRAM based ones (often called RAM-drives). The RAM-drives data persistence can only be guaranteed thanks to a battery, but for a limited time.

It’s called solid-state drive because it uses semiconductor devices, and it doesn’t have any moving parts, unlike hard disk drives which consist of a motor, rotating platters with magnetic surfaces, and mobile read/write heads.

- left: hard disk drive. center & right: solid-state drive from above & under -

Comparison with hard disk drives:

+ Faster start-up (no mechanical delays);
+ Fast random access for reading (no read/write heads to move);
+ Low read/write latency times;
+ No noise (no mechanical movements), except for some high-capacity models which have cooling fans;
+ High mechanical reliability (no moving parts);
+ File fragmentation has almost no impact on performance, since the seek time is almost constant and is not dependent on the physical location of the data;
+ For low capacity SSDs, lower power consumption and heat production;
+ For low capacity SSDs, lower height and size.
- Price (as of mid-2008, around USD 3.50 per GB for flash memory, and around USD 0.40 per GB for mechanical drives);
- Capacity (currently far lower than that of usual hard drives, but predicted to swiftly increase, with experimental SSDs of up to 1 TB);
- High vulnerability to certain effects, such as abrupt power loss, magnetic fields, electric/static charges…..
- Limited write cycles (but the problem is improved all the time. Today’s SSDs can last up to 20 years with average usage). SSDs based on DRAM do not suffer from this problem;
- Slower write speeds (except for SSDs based on DRAM);
- Lower storage density (but is expected to rapidly increase in the near future);
- Higher power consumption (SSDs also take more power per GB).

The advantages of SSDs are interesting for mobile computing and are becoming increasingly popular in markets such as notebook PCs, Ultra-Mobile PCs, and electronics sectors. The capacity currently varies from 12GB to 256 GB. Decreasing prices in raw flash material costs, and in the mean time increasing capacities make SSDs tend to be the next hard disk drive generation.

More information on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive

The new Nexcopy software runs with a USB dongle.  This means the duplicator software & system can be loaded [and ran] from ANY production machine.  The previous software could only be installed on one machine. 

The new software also includes:

• bit-for-bit copy from a master device
• full verification function [before just check-sum, which is still there]
• “job wizard” to guide you through the process and the user can select mulitple tasks to be performed with a single click (ie:  delete, format, copy, verify, volume name on single click)
• 10% increase in code optimization for better performance
• complete new look and feel

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There is increasing interest right now in USB copiers and Flash Media Duplicators. Many in the optical duplication industry have been holding their breath in the hope that Flash Media duplication may breath more life into the sizeable BD, DVD and CD duplication market. We’ve got opinions on where the market will go but this blog post is too short to discuss them. Chek out a wide range of USB copiers and Flash Duplicators at CD-writer.com. The Nexcopy Flash Drive Duplicator unit looks particularly interesting.