Please consider the following when it comes to data recovery pricing:

There are a number of business models that 'data recovery' companies use to get your business.

1) A popular new model is the flat rate low quote, in which a new, low-level company will quote around $395 to recover your data under any circumstance. Here's what happens with these companies: They get a flood of drives from people surprised at how cheap the service is compared to all the other data recovery labs, and because there are apparently no surprises in regards to prices. Their 'techs', which only need know very basic computer skills, very quickly hook the drives up as a slave in a computer and run data recovery software on the drive (if needed). If it works they just made a quick $395, if not, hardly any time wasted, and they'll just say "the drive was unrecoverable", or just re-quote a much higher price now that they have your data. This is especially effective if an evaluation fee is charged, as they can spend just 5 minutes with your drive and still make $50-$100 to tell you it's unrecoverable. It doesn't give them a reason to try very hard to recover your data.

IF THEY CAN RECOVER IT FOR $395 SO CAN WE! Our price cap is set higher than this for a reason, and it's not because we charge more for the same work: We can do so much more than these simple data recovery companies can do, but it takes time, skills, and usually costs us over a hundred dollars in parts for each attempt at a cleanroom recovery. Also, the first step to our recoveries involves making a clone of your hard drive. Any data recovery company that doesn't make a clone of your drive first will be taking unnecessary chances with the only copy of the data, and their first attempt may ruin further attempts to recover data. By working with a clone, the original drive is accessed only once, and it is the safest beginning to any true data recovery.

2) Full service lab that charges evaluation fee: This is understandable, as an in-depth evaluation will sometimes take several hours (if they truly do it), BUT: You are definitely committing to that fee, and the company knows that because of that, you will be more likely to approve whatever they quote, so they will have the ability to quote higher and have more people just accept the high pricing. Many of these labs sometimes charge over $4000 for data recovery on just one drive. The situation that often occurs is that they will either make double what we would charge, or if you don't approve, at least they still made something for not doing anything intensive or that cost them anything besides some tech time.

OUR PRICING MODEL: There is no evaluation fee for a reason: We want you to know exactly what you will have to pay before you have to commit to any price, and we don't want to charge you anything if we don't recover your data. Some recoveries are easy (for us) and only warrant our minimum of $300 which is lower than most of the companies in group 1 charge. Other recoveries can take days or weeks of tech time and sometimes require parts that are hard to find that we may pay over $300 for, just to attempt to recover your data. Obviously, for these cases we must charge more.

Our prices for data recovery on desktop hard drives up to 80 GB will range from $300-$1500. For drives over 80 GB, the range is from $300-$2500. Our prices for recoveries on laptop drives up to 30 GB are $300-$1500, and for laptop drives over 30 GB, the price range is $300-$2000. After evaluation, you will receive an exact quote. RAID recoveries start at $2000, and because of the complexities we have no set price cap for these recoveries. As with our other recoveries, you will know exactly how much the recovery will cost after our evaluation, and before you commit to a price beyond the minimum quote.

Our prices are almost always at least 20%-30% less than our competitors with full-service cleanroom data recovery capabilities. Sometimes competitor prices are 100% more than ours. It just depends on the case and the competitor.

In any case, besides shipping cost, you have nothing to lose by sending us your drive for evaluation. Call now if you have more questions: 1-866-328-2522

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