Some of you may wonder (ok, want to know) how we charge and come up with our data recovery quotes. We do not have any hidden charges and costs, and we make known the costs of recovery after the evaluation stage.
Evaluation is where we take in your hard disk for evaluation and asses the type of recovery you need. Recovery charges are based on the job complexity.
 Type of data media/Size of data storage
Depending on the type of data media (solid state, IDE hdd, SCSI hdd), recovery charges may vary. SCSI hard disk is harder to recover than IDE hard disk, 100GB is harder to recover than 20GB and so on.
Certain disk models are harder to recover due to manufacturing technology, materials and age. Hardware failures are harder to recover from solid state disks than normal hard disks.
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 Type Of Failure
Physical/hardware failure (hard disk crash, PCB ) related data loss is harder and costlier to recover than a logical data loss (deletions, format) due to the amount of time, resources and manpower consumed.
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 Operating environment
There are various operating systems, and recovery for operating systems will have different problems arising unique to each system. Windows operating systems will be easier (and cheaper) to recover than UNIX file systems.
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 What happened in between beginning of data loss and start of recovery
Once data loss has occurred, whatever occurs before recovery has started would have a huge impact on the recoverability of your data.
In hard disk crash for example, if you keep restarting the computer, you are damaging to the hard disk further each time you power up. If the damage gets too extensive, recovery will be costlier and even the amount or recoverable data will decrease or even be impossible to recovery.
In logical data loss, say file deletions, any data written to the data media after the loss will most likely overwrite the data that you want to recover and overwritten data cannot be recovered.
Your actions after data loss will have a huge bearing on the cost of recovery, so keep that in mind.
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 Other factors
Certain recovery jobs may require recovery from encrypted files. Some may need recovery from propriety machines. Others may need the data ASAP. These requirements add to the cost of recovery.
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In short, recovery does not rely on the amount of data you need to recover BUT the data media size, job complexity and other special requirements and arrangements that the user may require.
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