Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once

Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by chaos_emergent on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:05PM (#28158806)

I've wanted the Etcher Pro to come out because I used to manage dozens of IoT devices, it took the better part of two days to flash operating systems onto them before I could deploy them into the field. The Pro would've made that process take minutes instead of days!

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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by poyu on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:55PM (#28160054)

At the cost of almost $1k USD

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Re:Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB d... by robotmay on Thursday August 12, 2021 @03:17PM (#28160307)

$1k is basically nothing to a business compared to the cost of paying some muppet to write 50 SD cards at short notice. Especially as it’s a one-off cost.

At my previous job we’d have recouped the cost within a couple of months at the most, and the sanity of whichever person was assigned to do the cards.

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