Well,
It really STINKS to be me right now. I just received the recovered files from a Hard Drive that went bad on me. Kroll Ontrack did the recovery. It was a choice of three different companies, all claiming to be better for one reason or another, but all tossing out a ballpark quote for the economy service (No expediting) of about $700 - $2000. The one real advantage Kroll Ontrack had over the other two companies, (CBL out of Canada and DriveSavers out of CA), was that the offered to supply a File List of what was on the drive as well as the condition of the files. Not knowing exactly what was on the disk I chose Kroll Ontrack. They essentially do about 80% of the recovery in order to obtain the file list, banking that you will decide to take the financial plunge, in other words, take a second mortgage out on your home. After seeing the file list I was stunned at how much was on the drive that I wanted. And after some negotiations I managed to get the price knocked down from a real-time quote of $1300+ to about $1000. It's still not a cheep investment.
So if you think your safe from this kind of disaster, think twice and then back up your data. So I ran out and bought a Blu-Ray burner and some Dual-Layer discs and pan to burn 50GB at a single pop to make backups of the data.
Seem like a lot of data? Well the camera I own sucks up 30MB a pic and I like to bracket my photographs and take several viewpoints of a single subject. So 16GB memory cards can get filled up pretty fast.
...just food for thought!
Now you can all confirm my insanity and have me committed at any time!
It really STINKS to be me right now. I just received the recovered files from a Hard Drive that went bad on me. Kroll Ontrack did the recovery. It was a choice of three different companies, all claiming to be better for one reason or another, but all tossing out a ballpark quote for the economy service (No expediting) of about $700 - $2000. The one real advantage Kroll Ontrack had over the other two companies, (CBL out of Canada and DriveSavers out of CA), was that the offered to supply a File List of what was on the drive as well as the condition of the files. Not knowing exactly what was on the disk I chose Kroll Ontrack. They essentially do about 80% of the recovery in order to obtain the file list, banking that you will decide to take the financial plunge, in other words, take a second mortgage out on your home. After seeing the file list I was stunned at how much was on the drive that I wanted. And after some negotiations I managed to get the price knocked down from a real-time quote of $1300+ to about $1000. It's still not a cheep investment.
So if you think your safe from this kind of disaster, think twice and then back up your data. So I ran out and bought a Blu-Ray burner and some Dual-Layer discs and pan to burn 50GB at a single pop to make backups of the data.
Seem like a lot of data? Well the camera I own sucks up 30MB a pic and I like to bracket my photographs and take several viewpoints of a single subject. So 16GB memory cards can get filled up pretty fast.
...just food for thought!
Now you can all confirm my insanity and have me committed at any time!