Well, this is something new and something different too. There are times when we want to copy all the movies from our friend’s 500 GB Hard Disk Drive to our very own newly bought 500GB Hard Disk Drive. One way out is to plugin both of the them into the two different USB ports of our laptop and wait to for the huge data transfer to be complete (which will slow down the laptop during that time period) or else use the newly launched SATA Hard Drive Duplicator by StarTech.

Though the concept behind StarTech’s SATA Hard Drive Duplicator (code named SATDOCK22R) is interesting yet the cost of buying the same (US $ 169.99) can actually prove to be a huge turn off.

The SATA Hard Disk Drive Duplicator will support the 3.5 inch and the 2.5 inch SATA I/II hard disk drives and can also be used as a docking station for your spare hard disk drives. As the name signifies, the StarTech SATA Hard Disk Drive Duplicator creates an exact clone of the source hard disk drive into the destination hard disk drive. This clone will also include the booth sector information, partition information, as well as the user data ofcourse at the acceptable copy rate of 72 MB per second.

This duplicator has LED indicators, USB 2.0 interface, eject button for your ease, built in support for drive short circuiting, and sector by sector copying etc. Lastly, as I indicated earlier, StarTech will have to make the decision of slashing the prices by few bucks if they want the duplicator to make a killing.

[via iTech News]