It's such a high cost- and $2350 sounds right, if a tad on the high-middle end, for a modern drive- because for a busted drive they typically have to spin it up slowly (read as: nowhere near the speed that whizzing sound your PC makes when it spins up the HD to read stuff) and read all the data off to another drive/tape, which is time-consuming and painful. Though if it's Seagate, as long as the hard drive failure wasn't complete and total (
i.e. some form of fire or explosion!) they should do a VERY good job with it- expect near-total recovery for that price.
~Chris
On 5/7/07, Kristin <kristin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
are any of our geeks knowledgeable on the subject of hard drive data
recovery?
as you may have seen Andy quote under his Thought Residue this week:
<http://wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2007/WN.05.03.07.html>
"I'm riding on several bummers right now: 1) The hard drive where I keep
all my video files stopped working (and I may have lost forever the high
rez versions of a few of my recent movies)."
He sent the drive to Seagate, and they want $2350 to recover it!
We need the data... do I just pay it?
They've got me right where they want me...
Any advice or suggestions?
-Kristin
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