What is the best purchase of my first kit?

[juanmeneses]

Hello Friends, few days ago I asked if anyone was willing to help me accelerate my learning in data recovery (hopefully in Spanish), and was willing to pay for your time. And received no answers. Now I decided to buy my first kit. I have read, but I'm not 100% sure. Do you by which it would be? Atola - SalvationData - PC3000? We appreciate your comments. If someone who knows more than me is willing to help. Like I could pay by Paypal. Greetings to all.

[craig6928]

hello i would get the following tool

the first tool atola insight is easy to use

the more advance tool would be the pc3000 but your have to learn with this tool
as it more for experience data recovery work.
its work really well


the data compass is ok tool so long you know how to use it

1) atola

2) pc3000

3) salvation data compass

[jerovsek]

Hello,

everything depends on your budget.
You can check also http://www.dolphindatalab.com/products/ support is very good and tools too

You will see, that some cases you can solved with different tools (HW and SW).

[longlife]

IF it is only data recovery then i am not certain.

But if its is repair and recovery then free tools of CHINA HDD UNION is sufficient..................

Why to pay when other tools are free.........

[poehere]

If you are serious about DR work then you should not go cheap. Buy the PC3000 with DE for your work. This tool will give you the best chance in the work you want to do and ensure that your clients data is not screwed up but is returned to them.

[Tawfeek]

If you are serious about DR work then you should not go cheap. Buy the PC3000 with DE for your work. This tool will give you the best chance in the work you want to do and ensure that your clients data is not screwed up but is returned to them.

Welcome back Ann

[HaQue]

A strategy I have seen is to partner up/outsource or whatever you want to call it.

Take all the cases into your shop that you plan on doing, and the ones you don't have skills or tools for yet, outsource.

This means that all the while you are learning or saving for tools, you can still get your name out there. as you learn more, you can slowly send less to the outsource company and do more.

for this to work:
-You need to find a very good, trustworthy company to outsource to - don't want to have them screwing up your reputation.
-You have to be honest you are outsourcing, if you try and hide the fact, you will come unstuck and that's bad press
-The outsource company should be ok with your plans and accept the reality that one day you will be keeping jobs yourself
-you have to resist putting a huge mark-up on the outsourced stuff - the customer should not be ripped off, but you can also expect to cover postage and incidentals to help you outsource.


So this means the first tool you buy should be the one that is going to be most useful to you in the shorter term and this relates directly to your skillset or your ability to learn. So having the very best tool, but not knowing how to use it for a year is a waste. It is not earning for you. a simple imager that makes you 2 -3 jobs a month is more beneficial than the 1 or 2 jobs a year that you can manage with your super-duper-hard-disk-whatever-tool. You will know when you need to get the next tool in your arsenal, because as you do jobs you will start to realise you "need" it, not "want" it.

I would love a PC3000 but in reality, what a waste it would be because I am only interested in flash.

hope you can get what I mean and my general feelings on this stuff.. cheers

[longlife]

I also second whatever HaQue has said.... The real intelligent way in case of HDD (and also MOBO) as the person is new to the field.

[Moteb]

I agree with Spildit but if you won't outsource the complicated cases you should purchase PC-300 : it's the most professional but the most expensive !

Good luck for your businness

[lcoughey]

My personal thoughts are not to waste your money on the Mickey Mouse tools now and then end up trying to sell them later. I recommend starting with DeepSpar Disk Imager and outsource what you cannot do. When you are getting enough recovery work that you are outsourcing that could justify getting PC3K, then get PC3K and start learning, but continue to outsource until you are confident that you can do it in-house.

[hddguy]

Why to pay when other tools are free.........

Some people wont take risks with clients media, and many wont sacrifice quality for cost.

You get what you pay for...