Easiest Ways To Update Offline Media?

We normally use PXE boot and deploy images across the network even though is seems slower since many computers are on a 100Mb connection due to sharing their network port with a 100Mb VOIP phone. We do this for convenience mostly because of the big hassle
of updating multiple flash drives whenever the image or task sequence is updated.  
We could use multicast if we were doing many simultaneous deployments of the same image, but the majority of the time, we are reimaging one-off machines one or two at a time.
However, I just saw some hardware and software that seems like it could make using offline media more manageable if they were used together.
Instead of copying the Content folder manually one stick at at a time to USB flash media, is there any reason you cannot just mass clone multiple copies of the LiteTouchMedia.iso file to multiple bootable usb drives using ImageUSB http://www.osforensics.com/tools/write-usb-images.html and
a USB hub like this?
This software copies the ISO as if burning a DVD.  It does not copy the Contents folder files the way you would manually create USB media for MDT.
If this works, then updating as many USB sticks as we can get on a hub wouldn't be much more difficult than just updating one USB stick.

We got them back at the same time by telling all of the remote technicians to send (FedEx) their flash drives to the corporate office. There was a period of time, maybe a week, where the remote technicians didn't have flash drives. That worked for us but
that's obviously not a technical item - it's a process item. Once all the flash drives were updated, which took about a day, we shipped the flash drives back out to the techs.
Mind you, we also had PXE booting for OSD through SCCM at all of our remote locations. So we approached the OSD question through a few different angles. (Flash drives, PXE + OSD, and also a "break-fix" location that machines could be shipped to.)
-Nick O.

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