2024-12-24

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Data Recovery Price Comparison

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Data Recovery Price ComparisonIt is important for customers to have a feel of data recovery pricing before they send their disks to recovery companies. Pricing comes down to Drive Size, Media Type (Hard Drive, RAID, SSD), and Issue with the Drive:

  1. Types of disk (interface, model and size)
  2. Failure modes
  3. Types of operating system
  4. User attempts before sending
  5. Any special user ‘s requirements

1. Types of hard drive (interface, model and size)

  • Interface
    The hard drive could be IDE, SATA or SCSI, ranging from a few gigabytes (GB) to a few terabytes (TB) from different manufacturers. It is a well known fact that SCSI disk is harder to recover than IDE disk.
  • Size
    It is also more difficult to recover data from a larger disk capacity as the magnetic density, the number of read write heads and the level of technological complexity increase with disk capacity.
  • Model
    It is also not surprise that certain disk models are extremely difficult to service due to the manufacturing technology, material and methodology.

2. Failure Modes
Hard disk may fail logically or physically. In general, it is harder to service a physically damaged disk and hence the cost of recovery will be higher.

3. Types of OS
The operating system are many and varied. Recovering data from a UNIX file system will be more difficult and costly than from a Windows operating System. Some recovery may even involve “legacy” system and may need to be treated as a special project.

4.  User’s Attempts
Unsound attempts by the users to rescue the data very often cause the data media to suffer more damages. Very often, in order to recover data from damaged media, earlier user’s action has to be reversed and this may add additional costs as a result.

5. Special User’s Requirement
Some recovery jobs may have special requirements. For instance, the disk could be from a special machine and therefore one may need to recover the booting operating system besides the data. In other instance, besides the normal disk failure, the customer may have special encrypted file system so recovering data from it could be a challenge.

In general, the data recovery pricing does not depend on the amount of data recovered. It depends on job complexity as outline above.

Data Recovery Price UK
The following is a sample of prices for data recovery of hard drives in UK.

IDE Hard Drive:
Size of Drive: 2-250 GB —- Price Ranges from £199 to £1000
Size of Drive: 250 – 500 GB —- Price Ranges from £199 to £1500

SATA Hard Drives
All Drives – Price Ranges from £199 to £1500.

SCSI Hard Drive
All Drives – Price Ranges from £300 to £2000.

RAID Recovery Price
RAID RECOVERY price for all RAID types including SAN, NAS and SNAP Servers starts from 500.

Fixed Price for Medias:
All removable media recovery prices are fixed depending upon the size of the media and type of media.

Floppy Disk: £99
CD ROM: £99
CD R/W: £99
DVD ROM: £150
DVD R/W: £150
Memory Stick: £99
Flash Card: £99
Iomega Zip: £199
Jaz disk: £199
Panasonic Optical 1.5Gb: £299
Pinnacle Optical 4.6Gb: £299
Imation Super Disks 120Mb ATA: £199
Flashcards such as Smart Media and Compact Flash etc: £99

Data Recovery Price USA
The following is a sample of prices for data recovery of hard drives in USA.

Logical Hard Drive Recovery: $85/hour
Logical Hard Drive Emergency Recovery: $149/hour

Physical Hard Drive Recovery: $149/hour
Physical Hard Drive Emergency Recovery: $250/hour

RAID Recovery: $250/hour
SSD Recovery: $250 an hour
VMware & Virtual Recovery: $149/hour
Flash Drive Recovery: $500 plus parts

About “No Data, No Charge”
Many data recovery companies maintained a no data, no charge policy. If the recovery process fails to produce usable data for clients, the storage media is returned free of cost.

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Why Difficult to Find Professional Data Recovery Training School

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Why Difficult to Find Professional Data Recovery Training SchoolThere is a direct correlation between the technology and economic interest. An ordinary PC’s hard disk stored the important day. If the hard disk is physically damage, the charge for a single hard disk drive is from $350-$1,000. There is a company who had the damaged hard disk. Their data is not classified. They sent the HDD to their location data recovery company who can’t extract the data. Then they delivered the HDD to another small company in Florida. After 1 month, they still not got back the data. Last, they find a professional data recovery company. They got the data back after 24 days. Be Charged $570. Another company has a damaged server. They asked the data recovery company to repair it. The price was $3,000. They can’t repair it at that time. They needed to bring it to their company. The price became $12,000.

How about the tracking charge? It is from $300-$750. This price is just to recover data from a physical damaged HDD. So please think is there anyone want to teach this technology to you.
It is common they don’t want to you know this technique.

Why many people do not willing to do the HDD repair business now? Repair HDD is much cheaper than data recovery. If you just repair HDD, perhaps you can’t afford the rent. Do data recovery business, maybe you can’t get an order per year. In some small towns, you should also repair other things to make a living. In some large city, it is possible to do data recovery business professional. However, the rent is also high. In some hot spot, a 40 square meter place should cost you $60,000-70,000. Maybe it will be higher. Not everyone can afford it. Furthermore, you should earn it little by little. Can you make up your mind to do this business? Not all of you, right?

So, how can you get into this field?
First, you can do this business from small. You should ensure the successful rate. Do not receive the case which you don’t have assurance to extract the data (Only if your customer told you it didn’t matter. You can do it and get experience). When you have a little repute, your business will become better and better. Then you can develop your company as a professional company. When you are more repute, you will get more cases. This time, you should employ staff to help you. Maybe you also afraid your technique be learnt by others now.

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Data Recovery Cost

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Data Recovery Cost When a hard drive failures, it can mean that data files are corrupted or deleted. Corrupted files can often be fixed using data recovery softwares.

When the hard drive makes whirring or clicking noises or is unusually hot, or if the computer won’t start, the hard drive could be physically damaged, in which case a data recovery company may be able to recover data from the damaged hard drives.

The cost for data recovery Service can vary significantly from case to case, and is dependent on many factors such as amount and type of media, condition of the media, amount of resources used, and the overall time needed to recover the data.

Typical cost:

• Data recovery softwares are good choices for hard drives with deleted or corrupted files but no actual physical damage. These data recovery softwares range from $40-$129.00.
• For disks that are physically damaged, Aero Data Recovery charges a flat rate as low as $219.00 for a single hard disk drive of any capacity with any operating system.
• Some vendors charge based on the capacity of the hard disk. Disk Doctors charges $375 to recover data from a 30 GB single hard disk drive running Windows and charges $1,000 for a 500 GB drive.
• Others firms provide only estimates. Factors that influence price include the number of files to be recovered and the turnaround time.

What should be included:

• Physical assessment of disk failure problem(s) and determination what data can be recovered.
• Delivering recovered data to customers.
• Customer support.

Additional cost:

• Evaluation. Many firms do not charge for this, while others charge $20-$200.
• Expedited service. Most vendors expect a turnaround of three to seven business days Rush service can run to several thousand dollars.
• The cost of returning a hard drive is sometimes included in the quote.
• Cost of media used to return recovered data to customers. For small amounts of data, customers can supply CDs or a USB computer stick (approximately $15.00). A common option is for customers to supply a portable hard drive ($110-$332) when they send in their hard drives for repair. Recovered data can be obtained via secure online download, which may be the best option for international clients.
• Pick-up and delivery service can cost around $40.00 if a customer is located near the firm.
Shopping for data recovery:
• One way to find a provider is through a computer hardware vendor which may have a partnership with a data recovery service provider. For example, CompUSA uses DriveSavers Data Recovery for the computers they sell.
• Disk Doctors and DTI Data Recovery have lab sites located all over the U.S.
• Finally, some vendors, such as ESS Data Recovery, are authorized to open hard drives by all hard drive manufacturers without voiding warranties.

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