On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 08:32 +0800, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > long ago (this was circa 1995), i read that data recovery from > the drive platters was on the order of $5000. it's certainly > less now. particularly in the philippines. anyone know > (from actual experience, or from hearing from a friend of > a friend) what the going rate is? estimates only, of course. > answers within +- $1000 are reasonable since costs will vary > with the different kinds of damage (and will cost more if the > drive owner tried to fix things himself by opening up the case > or replacing the boards, although I've heard of successful > board replacements since that's not too invasive and just requires > finding the exact same model of drive to steal a board from).
oh, some pricing here: http://www.harddriverx.com/pricing.htm interesting. of course those prices won't be the same as here (might be cheaper here, if the facilities are available, might be more expensive if there's no lab and the drives need to be shipped to singapore or taiwan). but the prices are indicative. there's no linux pricing. probably because there are too many different kinds of filesystem (including raid or lvm or raid+lvm or encrypted) so they need to price individually. tiger _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
