HEDGE’s OffShoot: Cascading is a neat little trick when copying media to multiple drives. With cascading copies, you first copy to your fastest drive. Then, you use that fast drive to copy to slower drives. This way, you free up your source earlier, making bandwidth available for the next source.
Normally you wouldn’t want to do this, but because Offshoot is doing copy and verification it is still referencing the original media.
There are typically two hardware setups when handling data: either one of the destinations is way faster than the other(s), or one is slow.
Before cascading, the slow drive would have held back the faster drives. With cascading, it all gets a lot faster
Instead of transferring to all three destinations simultaneously, with the faster ones patiently waiting for the slower drive to finish its work, you tell OffShoot you want to cascade. You first set up a destination, and then drop your slow destination on top of the fast drive.
As soon as the source has finished copying to the fast destination(s), it starts copying to the travel drive.
With a standard OffShoot license, you can cascade one destination, while with a PRO license you can have as many cascading destinations as you like.
To find out a lot more about how it works head over to HEDGE’s Offshoot page.
Cascading has been released on Windows, with Beta 2 available for macOS users.
