Data recovery prices, that is, the price charged by most service labs to find and restore deleted or damaged files can only be described as ridiculous. When purchasing data recovery, there are two paths one can follow. The first is to send out the failed component to a service lab. The price to have files retrieved from a 250 GB hard drive is approximately $1000.00. For this the PC service lab will connect your drive in piggyback to another computer, copy the contents of the drive to new and safe storage. The entire process takes 3 hours. The second path you can choose for recovery of your data is a do it yourself solution. To do this you will need to purchase a powerful third party application. If your objective is simply to locate and retrieve files that have disappeared from your computer’s hard disk, this is an extremely viable alternative. Actually even if your entire hard drive needs to be recovered this can still be a cost effective solution. Prices to follow this path range from $7.00 to $700.00 based on which program you opt to buy. So we’re left with data recovery prices that range from almost nothing to enough to purchase a small automobile.
Which is the best choice to make?
You can begin by ruling out using a service lab. 10 years ago when hard drives needed to be disassembled in certified clean rooms and repaired before they could be accessed for data, these labs and their prices were reasonable. But today when 95% of all hard disk failures are based on a software or logic crash instead of physical damage, the service offered by those labs is obsolete. Obviously one needs a do it yourself solution to . To be honest anyone with even the most basic computer experience can use quality file retrieval software like FileFinder to locate and recover all of their lost files. It just isn’t that hard a process.
The cost for effective recovery software
So now we must ask what is the price we can expect to pay for quality software for data retrieval?
Obviously, a $7.00 program probably has shortcomings and failings. But do we need a program costing hundreds of dollars? File rescue software prices average around $100.00. For this you should expect a program that can scan a 100 GB hard disk in under 2 hours. This program should also have a preview feature for images and a sort feature to help you select the files you wish to restore from the total list of recoverable files. Other important recovery software options include a quick scan feature and the ability to rescue files from any device attached to the PC.
Data recovery prices do vary widely of moderately priced programs such as FileFinder which costs less than $40.00 and can often outperform programs costing two or three times that amount. It is amazing that one can accomplish the exact same procedure, that being to retrieve deleted files and end up paying as much as $2000.00 or only $40.00. The difference as is always the case is in finding the right tool with a little bit instruction as one is given when using FileFinder.
