[OT] Data recovery services, recommend one?

[Kurt Wall]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:09:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Any of you folk used any of the available data recovery services? Can one
> > recommend one that does great work for mere peanuts?

It won't get done for mere peanuts. It takes specialized equipment and
no small amount of talent.


> I had great results with DriveSavers, but it cost a LOT of  peanuts.
> A drive full of XFS filesystems had completely failed.  All data were
> recovered, and returned to me on a LaCie quadra drive (USB, Firewire
> and SATA interfaces).  Neat.

Nice.

> Cost around $2500 US.

That dissertation was surely worth $2500, right? :-) Seriously, some
data is worth it.

Kurt
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