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
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