A quick Google search for "data recovery" will produce a long list of companies all offering data recovery services at varying prices.
So how can you decide which company to choose?
Low prices are certainly tempting, yet in an industry that demands a high level of technical expertise, is the cheapest price really the best choice?
Ask yourself this question: How much effort will a low cost data recovery company put into recovering your precious data? - particularly if you have a badly damaged device requiring a complex recovery process... and what if they're offering you a "no data, no fee" deal?... and how much expertise do they have?
How hard would you work for nothing?
Every week at Data Clinic we recover data from drives that have been to other companies who have dismissed customer's drives as "unrecoverable" when they are not.
There are two main reasons these companies say this -
- Because it is not financially worth their while to attempt to recover your data, &/or
- They do not have the necessary technical capability to achieve a successful recovery
An Example: One of our recent customers had lost their company data from their RAID array. She contacted a local IT specialist only to be told that recovery of the data was impossible. Luckily, she refused to accept their evaluation and asked Data Clinic for a second opinion on the array. We completed our diagnosis and discovered that it was, in fact, possible to recover all of the data. The data was fully restored and returned to the very relieved customer.
Data Clinic do not offer a "no data no fee" service. We charge a Diagnosis fee because we employ professional people who know what they are doing. These people do not work for nothing. The Diagnosis fee pays for them to sit down with your hard drive and accurately assess how to get around the problems and recover your data, rather than a "no data no fee" approach which is "if you can't fix it in a couple of minutes, forget about it as it's not worth looking at any further"
Some more Data Clinic case studies:
> This one for the national Scottish Rugby Team whose RAID Server broke down
> This one for a up and coming British musician who lost access to his compositions on his external hard disk |
