The California Data Recovery Service's website says that expedited service costs $799. I had a $120 Western Digital 500GB external hard drive fail on me and I had to find someone to recover the data immediately, so I agreed to the $799 express service fee. Two days later, I am into California Data Recovery for nearly $6,000. The quotes for the recovery kept escalating until I got the final invoice, which was for more than $4,000. Unless you've got the combination to the vault in Fort Knox on your hard drive, I would recommend going somewhere else to get your data recovered. Personally, I wonder how many of the reviews on this and other websites were written by the people at CDRS. The same reviews are repeated everywhere and NONE of them mention cost at all. The bottom line is that I was totally unprepared for the final cost of this data recovery because I was never told it would be even close to this amount. In fact, I thought the original $799 fee covered everything but the new hard drive.
Pros: Service was as promised and all data was recovered.
Cons: Absolutely shocking price!
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