[OT] Data recovery services, recommend one?

[Michael Hipp]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com 
> <mailto: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?
> 
>     Linux.
> 
>     Michael
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cost around $2500 US.

Whoa there dude! You're talking to the church mouse here.

I found these guys that say they'll do it for $389 flat (ok, it comes to about 
$500 once you buy their portable drive to get the data returned).

Anyway, it's not my data and I don't know yet if the client will pay or not. 
Just looking for options.

But I definitely agree it takes the work of a specialist, otherwise I'd just 
do it myself.

Thanks,
Michael