Drive Recovery: Recommendations

scottalanmiller

Maybe they are just busy and have not gotten to it yet.

gjacobse

Finally got the report

Good files: 18,293
Good bytes: 8.10 GB
Repairable files: 55
Repairable bytes: 9.41 MB
Partial files: 3,860
Partial bytes: 24.95 GB

Anything below good is unlikely to be recovered. Just about $1500 for it and the recovery drive.

Now to see if they want to go this route.

scottalanmiller

$1,500 of less than 10GB of data. Ouch.

gjacobse

@scottalanmiller
Included is $99.00 for the drive they would put the data on,.. but still - I don't know how that really compares. It appears though that they may opt out of the recovery. Will have to see.

scottalanmiller

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller
Included is $99.00 for the drive they would put the data on,.. but still - I don't know how that really compares. It appears though that they may opt out of the recovery. Will have to see.

$99? For a $4 USB stick?

gjacobse

Think it's a external hard drive

scottalanmiller

@g.jacobse said:

Think it's a external hard drive

That's foolish. Costs more, has no advantage and doesn't ship as well. That's $95 of "ripping you off".

TechieChick

Ouch that is pricy.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Think it's a external hard drive

That's foolish. Costs more, has no advantage and doesn't ship as well. That's $95 of "ripping you off".

They are stuck in the past.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

They are stuck in the past.

Like..... the 90s?

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

They are stuck in the past.

Like..... the 90s?

In tech, that's ancient!

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender I mean are we really suggesting that they are stuck in the 90s rather than ripping him off?

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender I mean are we really suggesting that they are stuck in the 90s rather than ripping him off?

Sadly - Yes. It's probably a combination. But they haven't looked at updating their process. They are an HD recovery factory. They want to deal with HDs.

Also, it's probably pretty rare for someone to only have 8 GB of data they want/need recovered. While as long as it's less than 128 GB, they could still go with a memory stick pretty easily, I'm sure they don't want to maintain multiple stocked devices.