ddrecovery wrote:
Is this the CF Card that initially came to Desert Data Recovery in Phoenix a couple of weeks back? It was then sent out to Drive Savers as your insurance company would only let Drive Savers work on it (which explains the price). If it is, I have some additional information on this case for anyone who plans on working on it. If not ignore this post.
What is worse? Insurance companies insisting on sending media to overpriced labs or labs that gouge because insurance is paying for it?
It reminds me of a 2 x Seagate SCSI RAID 1 that quoted $10K at a lab in the Toronto area. They gave all sorts of details to justify the high price, including time to reconstruct the complex RAID configuration. 100% BS.
Drive 1 - mirrored 100% with a couple of bad sectors (data was stale)
Drive 2 - needed a translator fix, mirrored 100% with no bad sectors, file system full accessible
Took us about an hour to do the whole thing. Odd thing is, we quoted less than $1K and the client decided that they didn't want the data, even though their deductible was $1K.
Anyway, that is off topic.