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Its happened again a seven month old Samsung 2TB started ticking and I didnt react quickenough
now no pics as it wont get up to speed.ANy one know of a cost effective recovery place?
Most are backed up but one major show isnt so far a quote of $750-$3000 scares me
any help appreciated--jim

Sorry.. wish I could help. I've lost two hard drives in two years..and ironically my main internal hard drive within a day of the back up drive dying. Best quote I could get for a 'possible recovery' was over a grand..

I'm still in therapy...

My wife's HDD just crashed recently. It was a Seagate 750GB in a Compaq box.

I removed the HDD and took it to Payam Data Recovery.

They quoted $750 for a 24 hr turnaround or $250 for one that took a few days. We opted for the latter. They also have a "no recovery, no payment" policy.

It took about 4 business days and they recovered everything.

I don't know what the issue with the HDD was - we've loaded to a new PC.

Hope that helps.

shop around on teh quote - i know there are a number of places in sydney that recover data and have had clients use them - they are not that expensive and that was years ago. Most data can be recovered from a HDD if you have the right tools and software.

Thanks guys I will check for pricing it was big help--jim

Silly Question?
Do I send A new hard drive for down loading data recovered
part 2 any opinions as to which brand is best
I usually use western digital but got seduced by 2 TB samsung
cheers jim

I hope that you manage to get things recovered ASAP!

I use Seagate Barracuda's. I've got 4 in my PC at the moment. Never had an issue with any of them after quite a few years of 24/7 operation.

I have used most of the brands, Western Digital, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi. I don't remember having problems with any of them.

One thing I have done for a very long time is always copy from the memory card to 2 different hard drives. This means the only place I don't have redundancy is on the memory card (and I can even do that on the D7000). i.e. I am protected against a (single) hard disk crash immediately on copying the images to the hard disk. I do further backup later but that is my belt and braces approach.

I use Western Digital internal and two WD 1.5gb external, I also have the os running on a Corsair ssd. Two weeks ago I had a Seagate Barracuda drive crash with all my business files and program files gone to god. I replaced it with two 1tb WD Green internal drives, reinstalled programs, restored business files from backup and all is now good. I did lose two business files after a small hitch with backups but they were not critical. I also copy critical files to my laptop and a second computer.

No help to the OP, but I have just bought 2x NAS boxes
For one I got 7x 2Tb Seagate Barracuda Green.
For the other I got 7x 3Tb Hitachi

So far after, about two weeks, I have had two of the Seagates fail. Lost all data in that NAS despite dual redundancy - It was still building the stripes when the failures happened. I made the mistake of putting data on there before I had finished the build process.
Neither drive failed Seatools diagnostics, so I have 2x 2Tb drives that I don't trust & can't return. Sigh.
When I mentioned it to my brother who has been in IT support longer than most of you have been alive, he just said "Seagate! What did you expect?"

The plan is, once I get it all working locally, to move one of the NAS boxes to a remote location. The local NAS will handle TimeMachine backups (Hourly backups for a day, Daily backups for a month, Weekly backups forever). Once a week, I will copy the local backups to the remote box. Via rsync so it won't take all week to do it.

part 2 any opinions as to which brand is best

With Hard Drives, it is not a question of if the drive will fail. Just when. Plan for it.
Unless mistreated, drives tend to fail early, as in my case above, or not for several years. Seagate do have a reputation for early failures, but all the companies have had their issues with quality control over the years.

inmotion wrote:Silly Question?
Do I send A new hard drive for down loading data recovered
part 2 any opinions as to which brand is best
I usually use western digital but got seduced by 2 TB samsung
cheers jim

You will need to provide a HDD for them to put the recovered data on.

Mr Darcy wrote:With Hard Drives, it is not a question of if the drive will fail. Just when. Plan for it.
Unless mistreated, drives tend to fail early, as in my case above, or not for several years. Seagate do have a reputation for early failures, but all the companies have had their issues with quality control over the years.

This is true.

I've found very few problems with Samsung, but potentially, all will experience issues at some point.

the foto fanatic wrote:I removed the HDD and took it to Payam Data Recovery.

+1, best around for data recovery.