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High Speed Duplication Solution for a Service Company Virtual Console Offers SD Duplicators for Efficient Updates of In-flight Entertainment Centers Background Airline companies are improving in-flight entertainment to differentiate their services from other airlines companies, to gain a competitive advantage, and to attract new and repeat fliers/passengers. For example, airline companies now offer new and varied in-flight entertainment every week including: movies, videos, a...nd audios to suit the tastes of every client whom they fly to different destinations. An airline company usually engages a service company to update the aircrafts’ entertainment centers when the aircrafts are at the airports (between flights). In order to do this, these service companies reprogram the SD cardswith the new contentof the entertainment centers in a very short time. Challenge Consider the logistics challenge a service company faces when trying to update the content of the entertainment center in each seat of an aircraft within a very short time--usually only 30 minutes or so. The service company must deliver the new in-flight content, for example, new movies, by copying the content from a Master SD card. Service companies searched for a cost-effective solution to overcome this logistical challenge. It was not until a service company was introduced to Virtual Console and its SD duplicator, which they realized that a solution existed. Solution The service company updates the content of entertainment center in each seat by replacing 128GB SD cards. In order to do this, the service company removes the SD cards from each unit, programs it using a Virtual Console SD duplicator and places those SD cards back in the airline’s seats. The entire process takes less than 30 minutes. The service company is successful in updating the entertainment center quickly and efficiently. Most notably, this is done when the passengers are not inside the aircraft. Virtual Console SD Duplicators The SD Duplicator from Virtual Console is a high-efficient duplication tool that can copy content of one master SD drive to as many as one hundred twenty target SD drives at a very high speed (25MB/s at each port). Typical ports available: 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84, 96, 108, and 120. With one-click copy functionality and minimal set up time, the SD duplicator is a great data transfer solution for service companies serving the in-flight entertainment market for updating the aircrafts’ entertainment centers.

Virtual Console sets another industry record with its new high speed 60 Port CF Duplicator Oceanside, NY, May 7, 2014 -Virtual Console, LLC announces the introduction of a hardware-based, easy-to-use Compact Flash (CF) card duplicator for business use. This newly-introduced unit is the only sixty-port CF flash card duplicator on the market. It is suitable for different industries such as: entertainment, gaming, in-flight entertainment, and election/vote conducting organizatio...Continue reading

VConsole Announces Next Generation USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duplicators to Enhance Duplication Efficiency Oceanside, NY, April 07, 2014 - Virtual Console, LLC, the leading manufacturer of flash media duplicators for USB, SD, and CF cards, announces the introduction of a hardware-based, easy-to-use, USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duplicator for business use. This newly-introduced unit is the only eighty-port USB 3.0 Duplicator on the market. Its introduction has solidified Virtual Console’s p...Continue reading

Verification Recovery in USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duplicators from Virtual Console. A New Feature for Improving Duplication Efficiency for Large Size Flash Drives USB duplicators are quickly gaining prominence in business circles. They serve an important function as they simultaneously duplicate flash drive content onto multiple flash drives. For both personal use and business use, you would regularly need to duplicate flash drives. To perform this task, you can use either a stand...alone hardware USB duplicator or a PC-based duplicator. This article focuses on a new feature called Verification Recovery that Virtual Console has recently introduced for its USB 3.0 duplicators product line. Working with a USB 3.0 Hardware Duplicator One of the notable features of a standalone USB 3.0 duplicator is its ease of use. The process of duplication is generally simple. You just insert Master flash drive and empty flash drives and press Start button. The USB duplicator quickly copies the Master flash drive to the target drives. Failed Out Identifying Failed Duplication A hardware duplicator copies the Master flash drive simultaneously to all target drives, sector by sector. After the duplication process is completed, the USB duplicator verifies the data on target drives to ensure that it matches the same on Master. The verification is done sector by sector. If data mismatch is identified on any target flash drive, it is marked as failed and is removed from further verification. Even though the flash drive works, it needs to be reduplicated, owing to its incorrect data. For flash drives of large capacity (for example: 250 GB) this entire process will take up to six hours. In a typical scenario, if the flash drive is marked as failed after six hours, you have to reduplicate this target flash drive. This has a serious effect on efficiencyespecially if you have to create hundreds of target flash drives. This is where the new Verification Recovery feature of VConsole USB 3.0 Duplicator comes to your rescue. Verification Recovery How does it Work and what are the Benefits? VConsole has introduced a new feature called Verification Recovery as an answer to failed flash drives. With the VConsole USB 3.0 hardware duplicators, data verification process has improved significantly. When data verification mismatch occurs, the hardware duplicator does not mark the drive as failed. Instead, it attempts to rewrite the bad data immediately and then re-verifies the (bad) sector. After the entire process is completed, chances are that most of the target flash drives are successfully duplicated. This increases productivity and efficiency. The increased productivity for large size flash drives is sure to increase your business revenue. This article is provided by Virtual Console, the leading manufacturer of flash media duplicators for USB, SD and CF cards. For more information, visit us at: www.vconsole.com

Software-based USB 3.0 Flash Drive Duplicator: The Affordable Solution Size, compatibility, and convenience are three appealing features of a flash drive that make it an obvious choice for temporary data storage solutions. Regardless of your age, the job you hold, or your gender, everyone needs a flash drive to carry personal or business data. Especially for businesses, a flash drive (also known as a thumb drive) serves as an ultimate marketing tool. Be it new product inform...Continue reading

Optimizing Duplication Times for Partially-filled USB Drives One benefit of Virtual Console (www.vconsole.com) USB duplicators is greatly enhanced duplication times through the ability to customize the duplication process to the amount of data actually being duplicated. For example, if a user has 8GB master and target drives, but only needs to duplicate 1GB of data, the duplicators can be configured to duplicate only 1GB, rather than a full 8GB duplication....Continue reading

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Choosing SD cards for optimal duplicating efficiency. Selecting both target and master SD cards for your duplication operations involves many important factors, including price, storage capacity, and end use. An understanding of SD card read/write speeds, SD card labeling, and duplicator performance can help you make the right choice to optimize your duplication operations. Virtual Console duplicators. Let's start with understanding the capabilities of the duplicators. Virtu...Continue reading

Is it worth it to duplicate with USB 3.0 target drives? Firms that duplicate USB drives (with products like Virtual Console's 21 (FCD-USB-21), 42 (FCD-USB-42) and 60 (FCD-USB-60) port USB Flash Drive Duplicators) have likely been asking themselves this question for a while: is it worth it to use USB 3.0 target drives? In theory, it ought to be a no brainer. USB 2.0 has a max theoretical transfer rate of 60 MB/s, compared to 3.0's 625 MB/s. Faster is always better, right? Es...Continue reading

USB and Flash Drive Duplication - When Size Matters Memory size marked on the USB or SD cards by the manufacturer is not always precise. After a closer inspection, a card marked as 16 GB for example may offer only 15.9 GB of storage space. There are also cases when the card will offer more memory than it is stated by the manufacturer. The difference between the actual and labeled memory size varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. Such variations between the actual and mar...ked storage is due to manufacturing quality. Interestingly, for most end users, this variance is not an issue. In fact, it has very little impact on using the USB or other flash drives for storage of the information. Problems arise when users attempt to duplicate USB or Flash drives. Imagine a scenario where a user needs to replicate a 16 GB USB flash drive onto 60 16 GB flash drives. If the actual storage capacity of the master drive (the original storage drive with data) is at 15.9 GB, and the 60 destination drives are only at 15.8 GB each; the last 0.1 MB of data would be lost. Moreover, the replication process will be successfully completed and any verification will fail to detect the error. Here is a closer look why. Despite low-level sector-wise searches by duplicator, copying process doesn’t consider file locations. In other words, only if both the master and destination drive have identical addresses will the data be copied. The verification process only checks files that were transferred fully. If file is not copied completely onto the destination card due to the lack of space, verification process will not check or compare data fragments, thus failing to detect the error. Virtual Console flash drive duplicators utilize the smallest size rule, dictating that any copying will be done based on the size of the smallest destination flash drive capacity. In the example above, only 15.8 GB of data would be copied, despite the master’s 15.9 GB size. To minimize the data loss and possible errors when replicating USB or flash drives we recommend: -Ensuring that your destination drives have larger storage capacity than that of the master drive. -Defragmenting your master memory drives on a regular basis prior to replication. -Enabling Size Check when prompted by FCD Manager to ensure data loss does not occur. In case of discrepancies, the flash drive duplication process will self-terminate. This article is provided by Virtual Console, the leading manufacturer of flash media duplicators for USB, SD and CF cards. For more information visit us at http://www.vconsole.com.

Virtual Console, LLC (www.vconsole.com) the leading manufacturer of professional grade flash media duplicators has announced its latest addition to the product line: the new and totally redesigned 120 Port SD Card Duplicator.