Thanks, Sam. Still kicking myself for not putting SSD in sooner! It's been a tough time as a family and it went down the list. Ah, hindsight...
The price is £250 data recovery and additional £200 for 1TB SSD installed incl. labour etc. (didn't mention extras, just said that's full price returned to me ready to go with Ventura). Can't decide whether or not to go for it or go refurb M series MacBook instead - albeit they felt the iMac running Ventura (27" 5k, 2017) has a good few years in it so worth keeping going. Any thoughts?! On Sunday, 22 December 2024 at 17:51:12 UTC Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > Oh dear, yes Fusion Drives are not great for data recoverability. If the > two drives get out of sync, especially due to a hardware failure, there’s > no way of recovering the data. > > I use SetllarDataRecovery most of the time, but for Fusion Drives it’s > dependent on macOS being able to reconstruct the two drives and show a > Fusion Drive volume. £250’s not bad for the data recovery. You can get a > 1TB Crucial MX500 for 80-90 these days, did their price include labour and > the adhesive strip set to stick it all back together? > *_* > > Regards > Sam Mullen > > +44 (0)7747778022 <//+447747778022> > [email protected] > www.macambulance.com > [image: MacAmbulance] MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC > Support and Web Development > > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and > delete the email immediately. > > On 22 Dec 2024, at 17:37, Adam Pymble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all > > You know when Sam tells you to do something and you don't get round to > it..... never put and SSD in our iMac and the Fusion failed doing a .1 > macOS update this week. > > Alas, my local TimeMachine backup is a bit dated. > > All I want off it is the photos. > > Local independent company here in London (who seem perfectly friendly, > reliable, honest etc) charge £250 for the data and £200 for 1TB internal > SSD. > > They assure me there's no simple software they could recommend for me to > retrieve the data, stating that Fusion drives can be a bit tricky. > > I just wanted to check there's no simple / cheaper (free!?!?) alternative > I could try to save the data before they put an SSD in it?! > > Thanks everyone and Happy Christmas. > > Adam > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/a04138bc-ed0f-4dcf-a3d7-74f5f473c954n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/a04138bc-ed0f-4dcf-a3d7-74f5f473c954n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/9681d9e8-6416-4856-82b9-dfe7cfb05094n%40googlegroups.com.
