88% Of Hard Drive Recoveries are So Easy, You Could Have Done Them
Hard drive recovery sounds super easy and profitable - and it is, if you are claiming to provide data recovery for the 88% of hard drives that have simple easy-to-fix problems. For 88% of hard drive failures are actually very simple problems that did not need to go all the way to a data recovery company. These are problems that could easily have been solved by system administrators, computer technicians, or hobbyists.
No wonder data recovery companies are springing up like grass in Vancouver, all claiming to have a price lower than the next. They are made up of system administrators, computer technicians, and hobbyists.
Low-End Data Recovery Covers the Easy Recoveries That You Could Have Done
Exactly the kind of people you want to send your drive to, in order to save a few bucks right? Well, we would argue, to do that would be very dangerous.
First, such companies will fade with time into distant memories - they do not have the staying power of serious data recovery companies that invest millions of dollars into research and development to always be on the forefront of data recovery and which are always trusted by businesses and individuals who need data back quickly and cost-effectively.
Ask Not Who is Cheaper - Ask If you want "Cheap, Problematic, Inconsistent Data Recovery" that you could have done yourself, or "Reasonably Priced, Consistently High Quality, Fast Data Recovery"
Second, the low-end companies are just going to do things that you, as a system administrator or computer technician, could have done. If they succeed, a reasonable question to ask would be 'Why didn't you do it yourself?'
High-end data recovery is always backed up by millions of dollars worth of research and experience.
If the low-end company fails, then a reasonable question to ask would be why you wasted your time with them since they would only do what you could have done. And they might have made the situation worse for a real data recovery company. But, if you are sending your drive away, isn't it because you don't want to take the risk of doing something wrong and ruining the chances of getting data back successfully?
If the Data Is Cheap Worthless Data, Not Deserving of Quality Data Recovery... Then What?
Regardless, there is also the question about the value of the data - is it less than $400, and there are no backups? If so, then by sending the drive to a low-end data recovery company, a message is being communicated about the value of the person who produced the data. Is this person earning more than $800/month? If so then he/she should be very insulted to know that you value his/her productivity so little.
If you are the person speaking to a boss about whether to recover the data, this answer - what is the data from two weeks of work worth? - could influence how you are perceived for a long time to come.
What it boils down to is that Transparen is providing the good stuff - the data recovery that system administrators could not have done on their own - the data recovery that gets data back in 3-5 business days or faster - the data recovery that befits a modern knowledge worker and does not belittle his or her productivity.
Next steps:
1. Read more about our data recovery service.
2. Contact Transparen.
