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JohnnyD · 01-04-2011, 04:45 PM

We had a hard disk crash on one of our audio editing devices. had $2000 worth of client data on it. We shopped around and there are a few common themes I encountered when dealing with data recovery companies:
-it's extremely expense
-they charge a base rate that is not refundable, regardless of if they recover the data or not
-quoted costs have a huge range ($400-3000 was a quote from one company) and are storage capacity based

We had to evaluate the cost of recovery and had to eat the $2000 to the client. Just wasn't worth the gamble to pay out a couple grand to a data recovery company, it potentially not work, then have to pay out another $2000 as a refund. This was all 3 or 4 years ago... costs have probably come down.

My suggestion is to call half a dozen companies to get quotes. Don't waste your time bringing the drives to Geek Squad - waste of time and money.

01-04-2011, 04:45 PM	#2
JohnnyD Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mansfield, MA Posts: 5,238	We had a hard disk crash on one of our audio editing devices. had $2000 worth of client data on it. We shopped around and there are a few common themes I encountered when dealing with data recovery companies: -it's extremely expense -they charge a base rate that is not refundable, regardless of if they recover the data or not -quoted costs have a huge range ($400-3000 was a quote from one company) and are storage capacity based We had to evaluate the cost of recovery and had to eat the $2000 to the client. Just wasn't worth the gamble to pay out a couple grand to a data recovery company, it potentially not work, then have to pay out another $2000 as a refund. This was all 3 or 4 years ago... costs have probably come down. My suggestion is to call half a dozen companies to get quotes. Don't waste your time bringing the drives to Geek Squad - waste of time and money.