Jordan Curzon wrote on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:41 PM:
> 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. > I would also recommend this guy. He has access to cleanroom facilities for hardware failures. My brother's laptop drive failed and he needed to replace a control chip in the drive to get it to work again. Probably the cheapest prices (by far) that you will find, very nice service. Brian > 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 -------------------- 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
