Here are a few examples of our recent work.
April 2013
Small video production business with video files stored on External Hard drive Western Digital My Passport drive – No Backup.
The drive was an Apple hfs+ formatted, 750Gb My Passport. The drive had been dropped and the heads had hit the landing ramp.
These drives also have hardware encryption locked to the enclosure. (even without a password set)
Replaced the heads, imaged the drive, then unlocked the encrypted image, 99% recovery 133GB recovered
Price = £500 + VAT
March 2013
Small business with all quickbooks files and other accounts data stored on failed laptop hard drive – No Backup- Fujitsu 120GB
Brought in a Fujitsu MHW2120BH drive, the drive was seized with head damage.
Replaced the heads and got a 99% Recovery as there was no platter damage.
Price = £400 +VAT
February 2013
Small business user, all work files stored on a NAS with no backup.
Brought in a QNAP TS-412 containing 4 x 2TB WD Green drives that was wanting to initialise the raid as it had become corrupted.
We de-striped the raid and recovered 2TB+ Of work documents and photos – Succeeded with 100% recovery.
Price = £299 + VAT
January 2013
Home PC user, copied all files and photos onto 2.5″ external drive, then the drive failed. The drive was making a high pitch whine and not reading.
We diagnosed it as completely seized up, (Spindle Seizure) a difficult job, needing parts. (needs all the platters and headstack removed and put into a donor chasis) However succeeded with 90-100% recovery.
Price = £489 + VAT
Company Directors laptop hard drive – 500GB Hitachi
Brought in a hard drive that was clicking.
We diagnosed the problem as damaged heads. This job required work in the clean room, replacement heads (two donor drives to get a clean read). Success rate was 85-95%
Price = £427 + VAT
December 2012
A large company backup server Dell Poweredge 4 disk raid 5 on a PERC controller, volume corrupt and not reading.
Imaged all four drives and de-striped the raid, recovered 700GB + data
Price = £350 + VAT
Programmer with development files held on a Buffalo Terastation 4 x WD 250GB drives, raid corrupted due to power cut, NAS drive just beeping loudly
Imaged all four drives and de-striped the raid, recovered 600GB + data
Price = £299 + VAT
All jobs are diagnosed individually and a price given for the amount of work required to carefully retrieve your valuable data.
This way you only pay for the work done and not a fixed higher price.