Inexpensive Disk Recovery Service?

[jd_12345]

Is anyone aware of an inexpensive disk recovery service with Class 100 clean room? Possibly off-shore? I have a 25GB IBM TravelStar 22400? laptop drive that has head problems (noises, repeated attempts to read) from which I'd like to retrieve the data. My first quote was $2200US from a NJ company just down the road from my current work site. A co-worker suggested it would be considerably less expensive to use an India-based service. It costs only $10-12US to ship a small package to India so I figure someone there might be able to do the job for less than the $500-600 USA quotes for recovery services requiring clean rooms and parts.

Any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks, Jim

 

[MrLinux]

The advantage of someone local is you can be reasonably sure what the service is like, with someone off-shore there is no guarantee they even have a clean room.

 

[jitpublisher]

There is no such thing as a good/cheap recovery service. India? Ha, don't even think about it, unless you can picture your harddrive laying around in some back alley full of dogs and cattle, next to a pile of old parts with children stripping them down for the precious metals. Maybe not quite that bad, but you get the picture.
You had better just go with the $2200 if you really want that data back. It is a little late now, but a good backup would have been much cheaper.......!

 

[jd_12345]

There is no such thing as a good/cheap recovery service. India? Ha, don't even think about it, ... You had better just go with the $2200 if you really want that data back. It is a little late now, but a good backup would have been much cheaper.......!

There are good recovery services in many parts of the world much less expensive than USA prices. I just don't know any by name and am looking for a reference. Your description of India is not representative of the high tech, financial, and corporate industries in Mumbai, the 3rd or 4th largest city in the world.

Going the $2200 rate is unnecessary as there are USA based services for $500-600 that include clean room service. That quote was from a high-end corporate service with offices in a shared services office in a Class A office building in an expensive area of many corporate HQs. Where their clean room was I have no idea. Unlikely it was on site. For all I know, they overnighted disks to India for service.

Agreed that good backup is cheaper. I had good backup. Unfortunately, I didn't have good OFFSITE backup when my office/warehouse burned to the ground.

 

[polo1983]

Yes, if the data is very important to you, just send your failed hdd to the reliable data recovery companies.

- Knowledge of data recovery, hdd repair, computer forensic and so on.
- Collection of hard drive firmware, Free file and disk Utilities
http://www.hddoctor.net

 

[jitpublisher]

There are good recovery services in many parts of the world much less expensive than USA prices. I just don't know any by name and am looking for a reference. Your description of India is not representative of the high tech, financial, and corporate industries in Mumbai, the 3rd or 4th largest city in the world.

Going the $2200 rate is unnecessary as there are USA based services for $500-600 that include clean room service. That quote was from a high-end corporate service with offices in a shared services office in a Class A office building in an expensive area of many corporate HQs. Where their clean room was I have no idea. Unlikely it was on site. For all I know, they overnighted disks to India for service.

Agreed that good backup is cheaper. I had good backup. Unfortunately, I didn't have good OFFSITE backup when my office/warehouse burned to the ground.

Hey dude, you are the one asking for opinions. If you are so sure about this, why did you even bother to ask the question?
It's your data, do with it what you want, sorry about your misfortune with the fire, that is indeed bad news.
But you know what? It's no skin off my back and won't lose a wink of sleep over it. Good luck, I do hope you get your data back.