JeffTD
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elephant-audio said:
Actually, the going rate for data recovery on a crashed harddrive varies from $900-$2300, depending on the success rate.
External Hard drive Question (GB)
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Actually, the going rate for data recovery on a crashed harddrive varies from $900-$2300, depending on the success rate.
Wow, because recently my friend had 30gb of shit recovered for $650. From a Maxtor drive no less 
I'm betting the prices are dependant on location...I can go anywhere in town and pay less than $900 for a full recovery.
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I'm betting the prices are dependant on location...I can go anywhere in town and pay less than $900 for a full recovery.
~e.a
JeffTD
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I'm going off the price I got from Disk Savers last week - best in the world at doing it though, and that was a 1 day turn around time on 120G. LOL
t-willy
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drives i've had die on me - maxtor and seagate
drives i've had that are solid - WD, hitachi, and fantom
the hitachis have all my current audio and the fantom backs it up. the WD has all my other data, pictures, documents, porn...er i mean...<cough>
drives i've had that are solid - WD, hitachi, and fantom
the hitachis have all my current audio and the fantom backs it up. the WD has all my other data, pictures, documents, porn...er i mean...<cough>
Hmm... in about 15 years of mucking about with computers I'd never had a hard drive die - until this thread started, and then my dad's failed (started losing data randomly) and then crashed (physically). Go figure.
Off the top of my head it's a Samsung, but it was elderly and abused more than anything
Steve
Off the top of my head it's a Samsung, but it was elderly and abused more than anything
Steve
I'm pretty sure if you took a visit to their offices though you'll find "techs" running data recovery software on all of those drives. Anyone that knows how to use that software could do it. So being "the best in world at doing it" means nothing to me, they wouldn't get a dollar from me when I think their prices are outrageous and I can get the same services for less. There is a store here right down the road from me, called MacTLC, they are a Mac retailer and authorized repair facility. They can recover info from any drive for any system for MUCH less than $900...with 1 day turnaround. That's where my friend took his, and he only wanted 30gb of shit recovered and luckily it was all available to recover. He has since bought a Glyph drive (per my recommendation) and has all of that data on it. He told me that is the 2nd Maxtor drive he's bought, and the 2nd one he's had problems with. The previous one didn't require data recovery, but he did have to format it a billion times, and he's a nerd about keeping everything clean, defragged, and running system analyzers all the time. So in other words he took better care of his shit than I do mine, and he still had problems.
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Steve, for the sake of letting this thread die, please do not tell us what brand the hard drive was if it starts with M and ends in axtor. Otherwise I see about another day of replies being posted to this thread
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DSS3 (sorry, hard for me to not get confused those few times I run into another Jeff so I'll have to use that until I'm less confused by names) I've never gotten such a strong feeling that Texas and California are in fact in different universes entirely where everything is backwards - I've fixed the same computer for the same customer on several occasions because they bought bloody Maxtors and I have never had a problem with a WD (even running one on a Pentium *1* - 60mHz - that was almost as old as I was) and I've gotten as many calls to fix something Dell tech support fucked up as I have to fix a new problem! I knew the places were different, but bloody hell! I'm glad I now know of *some* geographical region that is treated well by Dell, but now I'm scared to go there because everything else might be backwards too!
(Another) Jeff
(Another) Jeff
JeffTD
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JBroll, I honestly think the whole Maxtor thing could just be a fluke - ever manufacturer will have fuckups now and then, you know? It could be anything from the weather to the circumstances you run the drive under, you know how computers are. Dell are only nice to me when calling from the corporate account from the office - otherwise they are shit for help LOL. Who knows, maybe it's the heat and humidity down there or something?
EA, they don't run any software until the end... they actually open up the drive in a clean room, replace parts, clean shit out, really go through the drive in a surgical process - do a Google search for them, they really have the best success rates, even for shit that was caught in fires and whatnot. Other places may be able to recover stuff off a simple crash for way cheaper, but I doubt they'd be able to garuntee a 95% succesful recovery on a drive that had the head physical fall onto the platter and spun a few times during troubleshooting.
EA, they don't run any software until the end... they actually open up the drive in a clean room, replace parts, clean shit out, really go through the drive in a surgical process - do a Google search for them, they really have the best success rates, even for shit that was caught in fires and whatnot. Other places may be able to recover stuff off a simple crash for way cheaper, but I doubt they'd be able to garuntee a 95% succesful recovery on a drive that had the head physical fall onto the platter and spun a few times during troubleshooting.
I believe that....not to change the subject but I had 2 Peavey JSX heads and they both went haywire on me after a few days, one even blew up. It's a great sounding head too but I'm hesitant to buy another.....it happens though, just a bad batch. .........Now "die thread die"
Familia><Publica
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DSS3 said:
Quoted for absolute truth. I lost a shit load of data due to a fuckin wdc drive, hate the fuckers. Was only a year old.
The last bracket should be [/quote]
Seriously, I think we all get the picture: some people like some HDD makes, others like others. It's almost like your free to make up your own mind! Recommend the stuff you like, mention problems you had with other stuff - you need to don't drag the thread on for pages saying how you caught a LaCie in bed with your girlfriend and how a Seagate drive stole your firstborn child's soul.
Can we move on with our lives now?
Steve
Seriously, I think we all get the picture: some people like some HDD makes, others like others. It's almost like your free to make up your own mind! Recommend the stuff you like, mention problems you had with other stuff - you need to don't drag the thread on for pages saying how you caught a LaCie in bed with your girlfriend and how a Seagate drive stole your firstborn child's soul.
Can we move on with our lives now?
Steve
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tgs said:
aahhhhhhh my lacie disk has that exact same problem. But it does it all the time. i´m taking it to the shop in order to be repaired. It´s still under warranty.
you don´t need to open the case. In windows it says the brand and the serial number.
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