Patent ID: 8279545

Claim:
A system comprising: means for reading a first portion of data from a sourcing-data medium as a function of an induced relative movement between at least two stationary sourcing-data-medium transfer heads and the sourcing data medium, the at least two stationary sourcing-data-medium transfer heads defining one or more arrays of sourcing-data-medium transfer heads; means for writing the first portion of data read from the sourcing data medium to at least one sinking data medium as a function of an induced relative movement between at least two stationary sinking-data-medium transfer heads and the at least one sinking data medium, the at least two stationary sinking-data-medium transfer heads defining one or more arrays of stationary sinking-data-medium transfer heads; means for reading a second portion of data from the sourcing-data medium as a function of an induced relative movement between at least two movable sourcing-data-medium transfer heads and the sourcing data medium, the at least two movable sourcing-data-medium transfer heads defining one or more arrays of movable sourcing-data-medium transfer heads; and means for writing the second portion of data read from the sourcing data medium to the at least one sinking data medium as a function of an induced relative movement between at least two movable sinking-data-medium transfer heads and the at least one sinking data medium, the at least two movable sinking-data-medium transfer heads defining one or more arrays of movable sinking-data-medium transfer heads.