kasmo0 wrote:could you share your expericence with pc3000? (is it remunerable?) (how long time requieres to learn to use it?) it worth it ?.. Thanks , best regards.
Like all products, your remuneration is a function of multiple variables; not just the efficacy of the product. Ease of use, available education info, competitiveness of the industry, etc. etc.
The only way to answer your question without that info is to compare it to either a DDI4 or perhaps no D.R. hardware at all...
Assuming the DDI4 can recover ~80% of recoveries software cannot.
If you get 10 recoveries a week, that's +2 recoveries per week.
Let's pretend you can recover 100% of those... lets say you can charge more than most places, and you get $500 per recovery. That'd provide $1,000 per week ... 50 weeks a year.
Plug the math in as you see fit ... and decide for yourself.
The secondary variables are:
DDI4 is $3,000 to process 1 drive.
PC3K is $12,000 to process 4 drives... and can do so via the Windows environment.
The Win environment allows you to recover encrypted devices...
On top of allowing you to fix issues that most other platforms either don't even try, or fail at.
If however, you only do 4 recoveries per week... and you're in a market that doesn't support charging over $200... maybe the DDI4 is a better fit.
Maybe you can buy a used DDI4 for $2000 ... vs. the PC-3000 Express with Standard D.E. which is only $9,000 (or $12,000 with RAID) ... which makes it cost a little more per device. Don't need 4 channels..?
Buy the UDMA ...
The point is, it's not much more money per channel... It's just more all at once.
The one thing we all know is that the more money it costs to get in to something ... the slower that field will become "commodified". That's to say ... the longer we can make an actual living at it.
If Ace Labs offered financing and lower pricing ... more people would have them and the more people there'd be who whore their services out so cheaply that we can't make a living.
The bottom line is that the 'remuneration' is there if you have sufficient clients at a decent price-point, will take the time to learn ... and if you get recoveries that are difficult enough that you need a device to recover actually challenging cases.