Systems and methods for a drive preparation device
OwnerSteven Bress, Mark Joseph Menz +1inventors
InventorsSteven Bress, Mark Joseph Menz, Daniel Bress
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Abstract
A physically small, inexpensive to manufacture stand-alone dedicated function drive preparation device connects to a long term storage device such as a hard drive. The drive preparation device performs operations on the storage device such as formatting, copying, verifying, configuring, testing, and cleaning. Additionally the device may be configured set passwords. The device may also be configured to make multiple copies of a source storage device, these copies having unique network identifications. The device may be configured by a user.
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A physically small, inexpensive to manufacture, stand-alone dedicated function, drive preparation device comprising:
- an interface for connecting to a long term storage device;
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- logic and circuitry coupled to the interface, the logic and circuitry configured to issue one or more command sets to the storage device, the command sets causing the storage device to be formatted, configured, tested, written to, verified and/or cleaned.
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