friend wrote:
Thanks alot for reply,
here i welcome pricing should be charged for recovery and for their types,
like,
Logical in FAT system,BR damaged ,1st fat copy damaged and both fat damaged..or fat recovery like __ usd to __ usd
NTFS __ usd to __ usd
and others..
want to see your opinions?
Does datarecovey bussiness should need to make a status Mark to not to work below it?
Hi friend,
I see...
Principally, I divide data recovery in two major cases.
1
. Logical data recovery :
This is all about hard drive with normal condition (no firmware structure danages and all other components are OK). So only doing recovery in LBA based...
This is, however, is not so simple when recovering data after being infected by virus. Let's say virus infected the .xls file and encrypted its contents, overwriting and then, deleting the original files, and save the encrypted files in .bmp files...
Well, you can see, no antivirus will be able to deal with this condition. They just simply quarantine it or delete it and we have no data... This case will prove your capability and understanding about files, virus and reverse engineering. No Data Recovery software can help.
The price of this case, I think are justified by the sum of files (This is correct in this case !). let's say 20 USD per file will be enough for me. If the files are just too many, say 1000s of them, well, I'd propose the customer to pay about 1,000-2,000 USD for all files...
2. Physical data recovery...
This is the difficult one. I can not say that it should be very expensive, well, truly we invested a lot of hardware and components to deal with this kind of data recovery. nonetheless efforts and time.
But what if we just simply put the price above the logical data recovery ?
See here :
http://hddstudio.net/forum/showpost.php?p=22&postcount=1
that's about 125 USD - 800 USD in several cases.
I can not say it's cheap. And also, can not say it's expensive either.
I just have to update the price per week, to make sure I keep update with any possibilities. Several models of hard drive with same model tends to fail at the same week. So I must keep my components @stock.
Above all, I think, we're gonna need to explain to the customer why data recovery is so expensive. We must show them, that the whole procees in not so easy. Not just clicking the mouse buttons....