recommendation wanted for data recovery service

Tue May 17 14:10:10 PDT 2005

I recommend Lazarus Data Recovery in SF, if you're located in the
Bay Area. Based on my one experience with them, I have three reasons
to recommend them:

1] They're local; no shipping your disks logistic hassle.
   (Perhaps not apropos to your circumstance, unless you're
    willing to proxy for your foreign field office?)
2] Their service is considerably better priced than some of
   the "big" names out there.
3] Despite the fact they weren't able to get data from my
   cooked platters, they worked so hard to try, I felt that
   I'd gotten my money's worth.

Don't be thrown off by their diminutive location. In this dicey
science, a company that can clearly show value without yielding
successful results has got to be good!

-- Marco

Strata R. Chalup (strata at virtual.net) wrote: 
> 
> A client of mine has had a foreign field office server toast itself,
> and wants to recover the drive and ship it back.   Windows server
> with 3Ware RAID card.  They're getting quotes from $15K - $33K,
> which is about an order of magnitude more than they're interested
> in paying.  It's not a 'critical data' thing, it's a 'we're
> understaffed and don't have the expertise to mess with it ourselves'
> thing.
> 
> Recommendations for data recovery vendors, especially local to the
> South Bay, would be welcomed.
> 
> thanks,
> Strata
> 
> PS- Yes, the whole point of RAID is to keep this from happening.
> Fortunately I am on the *nix side of the shop, and don't know what
> in the world they were doing to end up in this situation.
> 
> 
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