Professional Data Recovery

The amount of professional data recovery companies has increased at a tremendous rate over the past four years or so. Maybe this is mostly due to all the marketers that have entered the market seeing it as a potential money-making niche. That's why you will see a lot of websites advertising unrealistically low data recovery prices from about $100 to $200. Fact is that just by looking at this price tag, you can understand that those are not pro data recovery companies, because if they were to try all options of recovery on each drive, they will go bankrupt in less than a month. There is a simple mathematical explanation - a repair of a defected hard drive, like replacing damaged read/write heads costs more than $100.

Professional data recovery companies on the other hand don't make false claims and are proficient enough with certain hard drives and particular hard drive manufacturers. They are companies that may even be ethical enough to be partners with larger more capable data recovery companies. However, the probability of recovery on a wide range of hard drives from various manufacturers over a period of time would prove to be unlikely. That's why the real Pros specialize with only several HDD manufacturers. In that way, they achieve an in depth knowledge and diagnostics of the PCB ( Printed Circuit Board ), read/write head replacement and calibration, Vendor Specific Information (VCI) contained within the ATA shell of the hard drive.

The main problem you are facing, if you haven't noticed yet, is the overwhelming number of "Pro" data recovery firms. when searching for data recovery possibilities, over 100 million different choices are invoked by the search engines. With so many choices out there you could download all day. This has made it difficult for customers to make an educated decision as to where they should send their media for data recovery.

Vantage (vantage.com) is a company that provides professional data recovery and restoration services for all types of data storage media and systems, including hard drives, RAID / NAS / SAN volumes, removable disk cartridges, diskettes, tape, CD, DVD, magneto-optical cartridges, USB flash and digital media data storage. The delivery of expert data recovery, disaster recovery and file recovery services continues to be their only business. Established in 1989, Vantage specializes in data recovery from disasters of all types and sizes, such as - Virus attacks; Flood damage; Software failure; hardware failure; human error. They even have an Emergency Hard Drive Data Recovery Toll free number for you to call (given on their website).