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You
will find as you shop around for data recovery that prices vary
greatly. You will get quotes
that range from $300 to $5,000 for standard hard drive recoveries. It’s not uncommon to literally get quotes that
have at least a $1,500 high/low spread.
We shopped one prominent data recovery company where we gave
them specific indicators of a physical hard drive failure. We were eventually quoted a price range of $600 to $2,900 for the
recovery. Many times this
is a bait and switch type tactic.
They get you to send in the drive with the low-end $600 price,
then they let you know it’s going to cost $2,100 for the recovery.
You end up being well under the $2,900 high-end price, but
well over what other reputable companies would charge.
Since most customers won’t go through the pain of having
the drive sent back, only to have to send it out to another company,
these bait and switch companies end up making huge profits off of
unsuspecting customers.
Try to find a company that will give you an up front cost for either
a logical or physical recovery.
Most companies will be able to tell you within a couple hundred
dollars the cost of a recovery.
However, don’t misunderstand a company that gives you a price
for two different procedures. For
example, some companies will give you a price if the failure is
logical and a price if the problem ends up being physical.
We called one firm and were told that if the drive had a
logical failure the price would be $400 and if it ended up being
a physical issue the price would be $1,600. This is not a high/low spread as mentioned
in the earlier example, this is simply quoting a price for two different
types of recoveries.
On average you can expect to pay anywhere from $400 to $600 for
logical recoveries, and $1,200 to $2,000 for physical recoveries
on standard IDE hard drives. If
you have RAID drives, SCSI, etc. depending on the configuration
prices can be as high as $15,000.
Remember, backup backup backup backup backup!!
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