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[TurboGTU]

I go a quote for how much it would cost to recover my data on my little 40g hard drive. Hows $500 sound  :shock: . Just the motor driver went out on mine. I bought a ebay HD and switched boards...thing now just flops around the arm. Got to love firmware changes. I hate Western Digital.  :evil: . :(

Moral of the story...GET A BACKUP SERVER. It'll save you headaches and invaluable data. :idea:

[dbtk2]

Everywhere I've heard of is in that range to recover data as well.  The cheapest I've heard is around $380 for that size drive.  Not cheap, but well worth it to a lot of companies and whatnot, so they know they can get the money.  This is why I run mirrored drives, so unless there is like a power surge that kills everything or something like that, I should be ok if something goes.

Shawn

[Invasion1]

Just bought a 60 GB external back up HD for my laptop and i feel more secure...

had one HD crash on my old Sony Laptop and i lost everything so lesson learned...

[LukeZ34]

Before you spend that $500, take my advice and go with these guys.

http://www.gillware.com/

I lost data on a 40gb IDE drive and it cost $375 (+ shipping) to get it back. I sent them a good working 40gb drive to copy the data on to, got it back 3 weeks later with all the data still intact!
The nice thing is they aren't a huge corporation who is only concerned about your money and not your happiness, they were great to deal with.