QUOTE(skthin @ Sep 30 2010, 07:29 PM)
Beware and better to do more survey 1st before you go to
http://www.adrc.com.my.
I did send a hd (160GB) to the company for evaluation before.
But I did not proceed for the recovery bcoz of its price is so expensive (3.5++K) that i feel it is unacceptable and also out of my budget.
Why I sent to this company becoz its evaluation charges on not to proceed for recovery when the data is recoverable is cheaper (95).
Other companies are more expensive (about 250).
I thought the evaluation charges is cheaper then the data recovery charges would be cheaper also. !!!!This is totally WRONG!!!!!
I did some survery before I sent my hd to the company. The range is about 400 - 2.5K(Max) for the hd size 160GB.
This company never give me a max figure for recovering my hd although I keep on asking.
They just said have to depend on my hd conditional. I still past it to them becoz of the thought, cheaper.
After I received the qoute, I totally shock!!! how come it is so expensive compare with the market price.
According to them my hd is just head failure and the data is recoverable.
I asked them for a cheaper price as just the head failure. They just asked me to look for other companies.
They make you to feel that it is worth to pay such amount money as no other companies can do it.
After I told back the hd and past it to another company for evaluation, the result is too many scratches on the disc and not recoverable.
I very disappoint and sad as all my data is gone forever.
Think twice when you want to send your hd to the company for recovery.
Thats how ALL hdd recovery companies operate, they will not give you a final estimate until they have thoroughly check the type of damage that your hdd has suffered and what is the probability that they can recover data and how much of it.
I knew that beforehand so i expected that recovery of data is gonna be expensive. Plus it helps when there is competition since being the sole provider of recovery services means you essentially have a monopoly and can charge as much as you want.
There is no market price on data recovery since each vendor set his/her own price since its a niche industry. plus the enterprise grade software and hardware needed to do both analysis and recovery isnt cheap.
"I thought the evaluation charges is cheaper then the data recovery charges would be cheaper also. !!!!This is totally WRONG!!!!!"
It IS wrong as in YOUR in the wrong for assuming that the evaluation could correlate to cheaper recovery charge.
Added on November 1, 2010, 12:01 amQUOTE(chenhui87 @ Oct 31 2010, 11:56 PM)
if not the very important files, i dun suggest to recovery, it cos a bomb~
Thats why better safe then sorry. People should have 2 tier backup solution. one local and one offsite.
This post has been edited by crapp0: Nov 1 2010, 12:01 AM 
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