Working+smarter

**Working smarter, faster and better w/ Joe and Rob Desktop. Facilitators: Joe and Rob (Ken) Westside Notetaker: Description: Come here Rob & Joe explain strategies, tips and the tools they use to work smarter, faster and better in supporting technology for teachers and students. Joe and Rob are both certified Apple technicians that support a wide range of hardware and software implementations. Learn what works, and more importantly what doesn't, in this ever changing world of educational technology support. Talking Points:**  1) What we used to do 2) What we do now 3) Why we do what we do 4) Experiment with trial and error brings about great revelations Notes

Imaging Used at Westside High School $4200 [] Bus: 14-target SATA The latest hard drive duplicator released in Sep. 2007, TA-2000 proves to be the best selling hard drive duplicator (hard disk copy machine) among the similar products in the HDD cloning market, jumping to the top sale of all hard drive duplicators within short time than ever.
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Model: TA-2000
Bus: SATA; IDE: Option Target: 14 ports, total 15 ports The latest hard drive duplicator (HDD copier/HDD cloner) released in Sep. 2007, TA-2000 proves to be the best selling hard drive duplicator among the similar products in the HDD cloning market, jumping to the top sale of all hard drive duplicators within short time than ever. Establishing the industrial standard by evolving, innovation and inherited traditional functionality and reliability, TA-2000 delivers the most comfortable way of operation to their customers and all software duplication are done with satisfication of 100% accuracy, fastest speed, and mass production. Whenever there is requirement of hard disc copy, the TA-2000 will always be the first consideration among customers.


 * **[|Ultra Fast]**Pure SATA bus interface, the latest industrial standard in PC field, suitable for those latest SATA hard drives in the market. Equipped with up to 9GB per minute of data transfer bandwidth, provide the fastest SATA platform for SATA HDD duplication (HDD disc copy). Up to truly tested 90MB per second of writing speed for latest hard drive on TA-2000, the usage would be always an enjoyment for customers to see the quick operation in a snap. But be noted, due to natural feature of circular storage in hard drive, accessing speed in inner circle of hard drive will be slower than that of outer circle. || **[|Filing the master]**In traditional hard drive duplication (hard disc copy), the PC makers must keep as many masters as they could, to satisfy their requirement for different orders from different customers. And as long as those orders are still running, those master hard drives are needed all the way. Due to this reality, the number of master will be increased incredibly and may become a disaster for PC makers for keeping them save. To eliminate such nightmare for PC makers, TA-2000 solves the trouble by providing the DD image function that uses a “Big Master” to store the data of each master as file. Users can select the file in this “Big master” as selecting/installing the master hard drive physically and thus the nightmare of too many master hard drives will disappear forever. ||
 * **[|Maximum capacity secured by power auto-control]**With total 15 ports on machine, TA-2000 offers 1 port master for reading and 14 ports for target hard drive, derive from traditional operation on old HDD duplicator. With such big capacity, users can have random target number from single up to 14 targets copied within one single operation, having max. number of copy capability and thus save your cost by reducing the number of machine for cost-effective investment. In addition, all hard drives on machine are operated in power-auto control environment, once if the operation is finished normally or trouble detected in the middle of operation or, even abort manually, the power will be terminated automatically, providing the best security to those hard drives connected. || **[|Functionality and versatility]**Users of hard drive duplicator always wish to finish the duplication as soon as possible. TA-2000's Quick copy function can satisfy such requirement easily. The Microsoft Windows system such as Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, etc., are all available to be copied via Quick copy function that only the data area (including the hidden partition) will be copied onto target hard drives, leaving the free space untouched to save time. Through Quick copy function, the duplication from smaller master onto larger capacity of targets is also available, even mixing different capacity of targets within one operation. More sophisticated copy function such as Block copy, Intelligent Block Copy will do more flexible range/data copy for unknown OS system, providing users the flexibility to reach their own special requirement. ||
 * **[|RAID (0 & 1) group copy capability]**With advanced and innovative hardware design, TA-2000 delivers the extraordinary feature other than the tradition of one master & multi-target operation which is, the RAID support with multi-master available. This magnificent function will copy the RAID group in one operation and will have several group of copied target RAID system completed. By activating the RAID support function, TA-2000 is able to install 2 pcs of master hard drive (RAID0 mode) and copy 6 sets of RAID0 system within one operation. For RAID1, users can even have up to 7 sets of target RAID1 copied and completed within single operation. Optional RAID5 or RAID10 is also provided to offer the capability of installing up to 4 pcs of master. || **[|Effective HDD cooling system & modular design]**Instead of placing those hard drives lying down on the platform of duplicators, TA-2000 improves such implement to standing-up of those hard drives. It is less space-occupied so as to make the size of TA-2000 more compact than other machines and users won't need to have big space for the working of TA-2000. In addition, 3 big powered fans built under those hard drives will cool those hard drives effectively during operation and thus the heat generated from hard drives themselves would be 100% cool down. So the external cooling device used before is not necessary and the air-conditioning environment would not be a necessity. Nevertheless, despite the powerful features, TA-2000 is designed with principle of simplicity. With few parts in it and each of them can be identified for defectiveness easily and thus to make the after sales service easy than ever. ||