Is PC3000 Worth It?

[cybervalley]

I'm wondering if the PC3000 is the worth the price? I understand that in order to get the real deal, it's somewhat expensive. My question is, money aside, does the system work? Are there people here who use it to recover data? What do you think of it? Please let me know, as I am strongly considering purchasing one. But, I want to make sure it is worth the money.

Thanks,

-Cybervalley

[LeaUK]

I wonder what figures we're talking? If you do purchase one, maybe you could tackle my three IBM Deathstars without the 500GBP per unit charge (which is often typical)? Would be EXTREMELY grateful.

Have you ever wondered how and why so many HDD repair centres have sprung up in the last 5 or so years? Well this question puzzled my for a while too until I found the three or so low level tools similar too and including PC3000.

There really can't be that many people capable of such low level recovery and access to the class of clean room they often advertise - here steps in PC3000!

ACE claim it's sold products to 479 repair companies, now things are starting to make sense! Take a look at some of the newer repair centre web sites, you can tell these are small operators without clean room facilities (as often promoted for impression) or significant investment. I'm guessing that tools like PC3000 answer my questions. Although I could be completely wrong and there are a world-wide plethora of HDD professionals who need no such tools......??

Unfortunately I cannot vouch for PC3000's value but I'm following this thread with significant interest hoping one of the site's gurus will answer.



Lea

[hddpro]

I'm wondering if the PC3000 is the worth the price? I understand that in order to get the real deal, it's somewhat expensive. My question is, money aside, does the system work? Are there people here who use it to recover data? What do you think of it? Please let me know, as I am strongly considering purchasing one. But, I want to make sure it is worth the money.

Thanks,

-Cybervalley

Same question over and over...
PC-3000 has no alternatives when it comes to harddrive repair.
Whatever acelab claims, I can assure you that you won't go wrong by having one.
I have PC3000, HRT and salvation data (which is a junk), and I can tell you that you can not compare any of those.
What I can tell you is that PC-3000 is number 1. HRT is number 205 and salvation data is number 99999999.

I'm sure you got an idea.

[cenahum]

And I can say that for each kind of problem that disks has , you have one kind of solution and one kind of tool that will help you to fixt it.
All kind of job will depend on what are you doing and not what are you using, why ? because sometimes does not matter what you have - PC3K SalvationData CSSI System Canadian System Channel Science HRT - it will not help if you do not know what you are doing, simple like that.
You all guys need to remeber that all this are only tools, and will not do the work, will only help you to do the work. Please do not say that this or that is not good in cases that the possible tool that is not helpping is YOU.

[RoboGeek]

I agree. But you better have a high volume before you spend the money. One or two DR's a month aren't going to cut it for spending any amount of money on equipment.

Also.. fixing the physical problems doesn't mean the data is intact either. If its been malfunctioning and writing garbage to the drive, you'll probably only get garbage back.