D_R wrote:
HaQue wrote:
I don't know about the rest of the world but in AU anything getting near or over $100 will be getting close to being rejected.
Who is going to reject the recovery? The DR-Company or the client?
And if you are talking about the client, so how does a chip off job fit into your statement?
It's one thing to put the USB-Stick into the Computer and let R-Studio do it's job. On the other hand we have the Chip-Off job, where I have to work.
I am talking about client rejecting. I just don't see a lot of company devices here. Regular population cant lose the stuff.. unless it starts to get over $100 and then for some reason it isn't so important. Yes even chip-off needs to be around that cost.
You forgot to mention the other modes of recovery, that Franc talks about - Electronic repair and manual file system work.
D_R wrote:
HaQue wrote:
If you want to earn money for your jobs, then anything more than 2 - 3 hrs you are essentially paying out of your pocket to recover peoples DATA.
I'd say, it depends on the case. Normally I work for companies. And they calculate. If a single day for one employee costs the company 800€, they have no problem to pay 1-2k to get the work of a week back.
1-2k for a flash drive simply because they need it and will pay, to me that's extortion. I wouldn't charge a thirsty man $200 for a glass of water simply because he is dying of thirst.
D_R wrote:
HaQue wrote:
for these, sometime the controller goes crazy, starts killing blocks and as it gets to the FAT then problems are noticeable and can be blamed on just corrupt FAT.
Every time you power on a device with dodgy controller you risk more data.
Hm? I havn't seen USB-Sticks / Controllers that are performing Refreshing procedures or wear leveling without writing commands to the Controller.
how do we know what the controller is doing? It is one a small 8/16/32 bit computer with any one of a hundred combinations of type of its own RAM, either software or hardware blocks of code to do various wear levelling, ECC, whitening (XOR), encryption etc... we really have no insight into what they are doing.. we can see the symptom, but only guess at the cause.
seen quite a few devices with blocks missing/zero'd out, copied many times
back to my point, where I think we agree.. r-studio or chip off is going to be the way most DR shops go, unless a particular job takes their fancy