Where did you find a supplier at that rate?
The Polish supplier quotes 1899 + 449zl .....about 821 USD (which must still be a great buy!)

@drc Which motherboard or chipset have you found to give you the best performance with this tool?

It is actually pretty comparable to Deepspar pre-3.xx series. The hugely limiting factor is going to be the hardware it is running on. Some motherboards are magic and make it run like butter, but 98% of everything else will make it unusably buggy.

I got a quote the other day from Alexey @ CopyR software. It's $450 US plus $100 US for the power control device.

I'd also like to know what motherboard (or chipset) is ideal.

· Choosing the motherboard and cables
Different chipsets use different memory organization schemes and have different temporal data transfer parameters, therefore cloning speeds will differ even under the same cloning settings.

The following cloning speeds were achieved when using the Dublicator
(Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 as the source hard drive and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40Gb ATA/133 as the destination hard drive):
for the SiS655 chipset 900-1200 Mb/min
for the i865PE chipset 1900-2300 Mb/min
for the NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset 2200-2300 Mb/min

(Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 as the source hard drive and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120Gb SATA as the destination hard drive):
for the SiS655 chipset 1200-1400 Mb/min
for the i865PE chipset 2100-2300 Mb/min
for the NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset 2300-2400 Mb/min

The top transfer rate when using a cable with 40 conductors is Ultra DMA 33, i.e. 33 Mb/sec. With an 80-conductors cable the Ultra DMA 66, Ultra DMA 100 and Ultra DMA 133 data transfer rates are also supported. SATA cables of equal length have essentially identical DTR characteristics