I had success with utah data recovery (utdatarecovery.com), but that was a logical recovery and not physical recovery. I screwed up my lvm and one disk in the raid pair complicated the problems.
On 5/22/07, Devlin Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucky for me, I get to send some crashed hard drives off to be > recovered for large sums of money. > > The sad tale involved a linux server running RAID 1 using lvm, > rsyncing to a backup server which also employed RAID 1 with lvm. > Somehow the fates thought it would be funny to crash all four drives > at the same time. Something fishy must be going on for that to > happen, but all other parts of the boxes are working without issues > (I first suspected power spikes etc. but thought that other parts of > the computer would have died as well). They are all clicking very > loudly. An offsite backup got a lot of data back, but it was over a > month and a half old. > > I know this has been put to the list in years past -- at that time > there was no company in Utah that could work on these dead and dying > disks. > > My question today is if anyone has had any experience with some of > these recovery companies and could give any recommendations. > > I contacted DriveSavers, they seem very professional and competent, > but need $4,900 to get it back in 5-7 business days (faster service > is available, 24 hour turnaround will run $15,800). > > DTI Data in Florida seems more reasonable at $1895 per disk (3-5 > business day turnaround) where an additional $400 per disk will > expedite it to 1-2 business days. > > Any experiences? Recommendations? > > -- Devlin > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
