It’s too late baby now, it’s too late …

June 15, 2009 in data loss | 2 comments


I’ve had 3 calls in the past two months from people asking me how to recover data from a dead drive. I’ve had to tell these people that my company does not recover data that has not been backed up with our service. I usually then tell them that they can call a friend of mine that works for a computer forensics company and he will tell you there is only a 20% chance the data can be recovered.

20% chance of recovering the data … I don’t like those odds.

Companies like my friend’s usually charge $200 or more just to evaluate the drive. If he can recover data, he will charge any where from $400 - $4900 for a PC hard drive, $1500 - $12,000 for a server drive and that is only up to 15G.

Drives these days are cheap. You can get a good 500G drive for around $85.00, but the data that you store on it may cost you your entire business if it is lost.

Let me ask you … is $5.00 a month worth spending to avoid the trouble these 3 callers were in?

I think so …