I posted back a little while ago about the problem with my Tree VMC 500 with the PC2100 that turned out to be the hard drive had failed. I am well on my way to getting it back and in operaton again. I will get to the point, I ran across this webpage for a company that offers a alternitive to using a hard drive that is installing a compact flash drive adapter and and compact flash drive that replaces the hard drive. I spoke to the company owner over the phone this morning to get more detailed information. To me right away there are three things that seem like a no brainer to choose this option. 1.) It is cheeper then buying a hard drive to clone. 2.) The company claimes they can last up to 50 times longer then a standerd IDE hard drive. ( they did say someone purchased this option from them and it did fail shortly after and that it was the only time it has ever happend and they replaced it free of charge. 3.) If the compact flash drive manages to fail it will only cost $140.00 to have them send you a new one. He said once they have your machine data they keep it for this reason. This company said that they would try to recover the data and if it was not possible they would search for another machine that is identical and clone it for a flat fee of $600.00 which seems kind of expinsive but they will jump threw the hoops rather then myself.
Threw talking to someone I found out that I can buy the compact flash adapters and flash drive for a considerable amount less and the only problem with going that route is I have the retrofit but no program information to load onto the flash drive.
I am wondering what people out there think of this option. I welcome any feed back that can be provided but mostly want to know if there is someone who has done it so I have someone other then the person trying to sell me the idea tell me what they think about it. Thanks for reading.
Threw talking to someone I found out that I can buy the compact flash adapters and flash drive for a considerable amount less and the only problem with going that route is I have the retrofit but no program information to load onto the flash drive.
I am wondering what people out there think of this option. I welcome any feed back that can be provided but mostly want to know if there is someone who has done it so I have someone other then the person trying to sell me the idea tell me what they think about it. Thanks for reading.