HD Duplicator Buying suggestion

[learner]

Hello Boys

Those who own Hd duplicator give there experience with full version build C240.
like its big daddy deepspar can it be useful for firmware / weak head disks.

[harddrivespecialist]

Is this a question or is it a statement?

[poehere]

I think he wants to buy ones of these and is curious if it can do what a deepspar can do. He wants to know if anyone has one of them and can give him some details on how it works and if it is a good tool for him to purchase.

[drc]

like its big daddy deepspar can it be useful for firmware / weak head disks.

What is your understanding of Deepspar being useful for "firmware / weak head disks"?

Certainly HD Duplicator is not going to do anything special with a drive that has firmware problems or can't read due to failing heads. But then neither is Deepspar.

[learner]

Thank you poehere for understanding
I would like to compare both products since price differenece is too high $450 & $3500.

DRC- check Deepspar manual , it has functionality to increase current of heads or disable weak heads.


It seems Hd duplicator is more advanced copier but essentially lag firmware/ head manipulation technology.

[BlackST]

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DRC- check Deepspar manual , it has functionality to increase current of heads or disable weak heads.

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[ppumkin]

Quote :

DRC- check Deepspar manual , it has functionality to increase current of heads or disable weak heads.

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Its strange how another collogue of mine thought exactly the same thing and went for DDI... So from that statement its not true? Mis-sold product?

[Eleg]

Maybe the DI Current Monitoring Add-on is the source of the confusion? However, it does not control, or even monitor, currents related to heads.

[BlackST]

Of course.

[drc]

check Deepspar manual , it has functionality to increase current of heads or disable weak heads.

As others have said, Deepspar does not have the ability to do anything with maniuplation of current. Disabling heads, yes. No, HD Duplicator can't do that.

[learner]

I Think these pictures will speak for themselves. Current monitoring is supported while you can certainly create Headmap & choose Heads .

It seems DRC & BlackST both doesnot own Deepspar. Any deepspar sales person these are 2 customers.

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[BlackST]

I use other solutions and one is proprietary. About disabling heads it can be done manually but it is brand/family dependent. Have used such tools in any case.

[ppumkin]

I Think these pictures will speak for themselves. Current monitoring is supported while you can certainly create Headmap & choose Heads .

It seems DRC & BlackST both doesnot own Deepspar. Any deepspar sales person these are 2 customers.

Did they actually show you that they disabled the head and did an image? Can you untick the heads in the options?

[drc]

Deepspar does not have the ability to do anything with maniuplation of current. Disabling heads, yes.

To be more specific: Yes, Deepspar can ignore specific heads while imaging. It does not do anything to the drive to accomplish this, just generates a map of which LBA correspond to which heads and allows you to skip specific heads (the LBAs associated with them). If bad or failing heads are preventing the drive from working normally, this functionality is not going to help you.

No, Deepspar does not manipulate any current, even if it does (can) measure it.

I never said Deepspar doesn't let you image by heads.

[mattbrad2]

+1 for Deepspar. I've owned one for almost a year now and even though I'm more of an IT repair shop I can't believe I've done work *without* this machine before now. It makes my life so much easier. By far the best equipment investment I've ever made. Data recovery aside, just imaging good drives or imaging drives with some bad sectors. It eliminates the need to reload Windows; re-create a customers Windows or Outlook profile. It also images drives faster than any other hardware imager I've used. Image by MFT saves a TON of time, especially on large drives.

[learner]

thanks mattbrad2
thats nice feedback. Its good to know it outperforms to hardware based imagers particularly on larger drives ( greater than 500gb)
Only inconvinience I feel is IDE to SATA adapters ,which will add additional cabling & power connectors ( as compared to standalone imagers)