maximus wrote:
I am guessing you are referring to my comment/reply about trying to target computer repair techs. To which I say that my homepage is basic crap. If I made it more appealing to them, then more would look further into it when they visited. Make something dull look shiny and they will come…
All of this is IMHO so feel free to tell me to STFU.
Small IT aren't fussed about DR - if their usb dock or their copy of ghost from 2002 doesn't clone it, they can't profit from it.There's more money to be made upselling the customer or subbing it out.
Sudo DR are probably going to be your best market. You compare hddsuperclone against dd which is always going to be a tough sell against something which is free. Rather than saying it's 20% better than a free tool say it's 80% as good as an expensive tool at 5% of the cost.
I found hddsuperclone whilst looking for the WD slow fix, having dismissed it previously as DD with lipstick on.
Looking at my box of test disks I've pushed through it now (it's been very quiet for months here) I'd say 65% I've cloned 99% and above, dead/damaged heads are around 20% and the rest are firmware, surface damage or just beyond me. If I'd have tied the relay to dd like pldaniels.com could have achieved the same ? The fact I couldn't be bothered to try should speak volumes. Retail customers aren't going to pay the costs for HSA swaps, data just isn't worth it to most - so that's a pretty reasonable recovery rate for what *my* clients would want. I was about to buy PC3000 before the world went to shit (so glad I didn't, it would just be gathering dust with my pc3000 flash), Id already consigned the tier 2 tools to the bin as the cost / function ratios are wrong and I'd end up needing to buy PC3000 anyway.
Pro DR are happy with their PC3000 and hddsuperclone is a curiosity. You'll get a few CAL from them as compared to other tools in the trade it's dirt cheap and useful if all the channels are full.
maximus wrote:
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Any time I think of trying to "finish" it, I realize that I barely remember how I coded it and it would be much work, and then the urge to "finish" it goes away LOL
Ah yes - the "what the hell was I smoking when I wrote that?" syndrome. I know it well
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