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Handy hard drive docking & standalone cloning station!
Cloning stations are the ideal gadget for system builders, integrators, technicians and IT departments. This neat little device also acts as an external hard drive for 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA hard disks as well as handy cloning station. It allows you to easily create bit by bit clones (including OS and Partitions) from original drives onto target HDDs. It is the easiest way to upgrade to larger capacity hard drives.
The great standalone cloner allows drives to be cloned without a computer. That ease of use is great for IT techs and upgraders. A useful docking function means blank drives up to 2TB can be connected to a computer via eSATA (3Gbps) or USB 2.0 (480Mbps). Recovering data and backing up files can be done simply, without much effort or the need for installation. The dual bay design allows two hard drives to be connected at the same time so data can be copied between multiple drives of different types as 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA drives are supported natively.
As well as being PC and Mac compatible this handy device also comes with a power cable, USB cable and eSATA cable included.
Read more about this USB 2.0 & eSATA hard drive docking and cloning station.
SPDIF Digital/Toslink Audio Converter
This SPDIF Digital/Toslink Audio Converter is a neat little device that solves many of the incompatibility problems with analogue and digital equipment. As people, especially those of us who are AV and home cinema enthusiasts regularly upgrade equipment, compatibility between new devices and older, different audio devices can often arise. This converter offers bi-directional conversion so that legacy audio equipment can continue to be used with newer audio devices.
Incompatibility between connectors is a frequent problem most people find when building up their home entertainment systems piece by piece. Usually people replace out-dated equipment as they can afford it, often though the availability of a new shiny device tempts us into parting with our cash. However when you get it home and try connecting it to the rest of your kit you can often find problems.
This cool converter allows digital audio to be inputted through a Coaxial or optical port and digital audio to be an output through Coaxial or optical ports. It gives complete flexibility during installs. Both optical and coaxial cables can also be connected at the same time to save you fiddling about, however only one can be active at a time.
With an integrated digital interpolator filter and Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC), this SPDIF Digital/Toslink Audio Converter supports uncompressed digital stereo audio input. It also comes with a 5v DC multi country power supply.
See more about this LINDY SPDIF Digital/Toslink Audio Converter.
