How to Evaluate a Data Recovery Service Learn the truth and make an educated decision! Here we will expose some of the false promises and misperceptions that most people are subjected to while researching data recovery services: (Just remember that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.) 1.) "Free Evaluation" You get what you pay for- you know your drive is broken, why send it to someone just to have them tell you what you already know. Once your drive is in their hands you are at their mercy. Expect a phone call explaining to you how there is an additional fee for an invasive evaluation and additional cost for parts. 2.) "FREE Phone Analysis of damaged Media" Nobody can possibly know the condition of the platters in the Head Disk Assembly without looking inside the drive! 3.) "Guaranteed estimates" (They guarantee it could cost from $600.00 to $3600.00) 4.) "Success rate of 93%" Exaggerated success rates are common in the data recovery industry; Unfortunately there are some circumstances that make it impossible for anyone to recover data no matter what techniques are used. 5.) "We Can Get Your Data Back...Guaranteed!" (Impossible to guarantee such a thing or they would advertise 100% success rate) 6.) "24 to 48 hour turnaround" While this is possible, it's not true a great deal of the time. At times, specific parts are required that may not be in stock and can take a few days just to locate and that doesn't include shipping time. 7.) "FREE Online Quote Consultations" Nobody in the data recovery business charges for a quote consultation. 8.) "Will beat any competitors' price" Some "garage labs" out there are charging $99.00 for an attempted recovery. This is surely just some guy with a data recovery software program that might work 1 out of 100 times. Get the $99.00 quote and offer it to the company making this promise: "Will beat any competitors' price". Good luck!     9.) "We guarantee the lowest price in the world for hard drive recovery" This is quite a statement however; you get what you pay for. If the cost of a recovery exceeds the price you were quoted you are not going to get the level of service you expected. No company goes into business to lose money. Your drive will be deemed unrecoverable and returned to you. This is why many other data recovery companies state that they have recovered files from a drive that another data recovery company could not retrieve. The files were in fact retrievable from the start. 10.) "No one has more experience at recovering data" Take note of when the company was founded. Are they simply a computer repair store who 'resells' data recovery? There are hundreds of fly by night companies claiming to perform data retrieval that come and go every year. Many times these companies will lead you to believe they have recovered "thousands of gigabytes of data" over so many years when in fact they have just sprouted up out of the blue, and who knows how long they will be around. We understand that if you are researching data recovery services, you already have enough problems. Whoever you decide to send your Data Recovery business to, make sure it is a reputable company with a strong history of customer satisfaction and success. Hard Drive Recovery : Dell Computer Recovery : Hard Drive Repair : Data Recovery : Hard Drive Data Recovery : Computer Hard Drive Recovery RAID Data Recovery : Toshiba Recovery : Maxtor Hard Drives: RAID Recovery Services : RAID Hard Disk Recovery Fujitsu Hard Drive Recovery : Seagate Hard Drive Recovery : ECO Data Review : Laptop Data Recovery : Data Recovery Pricing : Mac Data Recovery : Florida : Puerto Rico : QuickBooks File Recovery : Western Digital Hard Drive Recovery : Affordable Data Recovery : Data Recovery Information : New York : Blog : ECO Data Recovery 1391 N. Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL   33409,  US 561-691-0019 / 800-339-3412 ©2012-2013