data-medics wrote:
As for making the technical info more public making things better.... I doubt that very much. 95% of DIY recoveries I see here either made recovery impossible, or tripled the end cost to have it professionally handled.
It's the same reason that surgeons don't generally release how to guides to operate on yourself. While some may legitimately want to try it, that information is likely to cause a lot more harm to the world than do any good.
A little knowledge poorly applied is a dangerous thing. It gives people confidence they shouldn't have.
So .... what to do when a PRO asks for info ? Or hot to judge the level of knowledge of a so called "Pro" ?
If you were a person outside of the data recovery world having issues with an hard drive what type of advice would you follow ?
This sort of advice where a regular user manages to fix a WD slow issue without any PC3000 sort of tools just by following D.I.Y. procedures :
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29187Or this sort of advice provided by a PRO ?
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28686The question to be asked is more like .... what is a data recovery pro and what is not, and what level of information is safe to share and use.
It's not wrong to share as long as the user can evaluate the importance of the data they have and they do know where to stop. As long as it's inside a reasonable margin, and even if it's not .... i think that sharing the information can only be a problem to people relying on the secrets to make money.
Just because everyone can browse google and figure out how to build a computer from scratch, people still go to stores and buy computer. You can browse about canalization, or electricity and learn, yet people will still hire electricians to do their work.
Just because information about data recovery exists it doesn't mean that people will stop hiring data recovery professionals ...
And at the end, if it's not for sharing information what is the objective of this sort of data recovery forums then ? To promote oneself ?
Best regards.
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