DriveSavers Data Recovery

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I have used DriveSavers Data Recovery once to recover data from a hard drive that appeared to be totally fried. They’re expensive, but very good at what they do. We spent around $2,000 for the work but every byte was recovered and returned.

I just noticed that they’ve published an iPhone app that educates users a bit about the causes of hard drive failures, and offers some data protection strategies you can use to prevent them. Pretty generous considering they make a living from people not doing these things. They also have a web-based (Flash) version of the app on their web site here. You can take a look into their ISO-5 Certified cleanroom environment where they do their work.

Direct link to the iTunes App Store page here (will launch iTunes).

They can recover data from a variety of sources:

  • Laptop & desktop drives
  • Digital cameras
  • Tape
  • MP3 players & iPods
  • iPhones & iPads
  • Removable media
  • RAID / NAS / SAN environments

And if you think data recovery isn’t sometimes a very serious matter, they also have a suicide-prevention counsellor on staff. This underscores a very simple but often-neglected practice: data backups. If your data is even remotely important to you, have a backup strategy and stick to it.

Also check out their Museum of Bizarre Disk-asters.

Posted: February 17th, 2010
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