Data Recovery Pricing

[rtorres15]

What do you guys charge for Data Recovery in shop? Do you do levels with a set GB range?

 

[xxsilk109xx]

I charge 55.99 for data recovery flat rate for the first 4.7GB then its an additional 10 dollars per 4.7GB disk. If I am making an image of a disk for a customer that they want to be able to restore from if the computer goes kaput, then I charge 85.99 flat rate and I will either put it onto a hard drive or give them multiple dvd's

 

[rkenig]

What software do you use for this?

 

[MrUnknown]

GetDataBack, R-Studio

 

[SThompson86]

I charge 55.99 for data recovery flat rate for the first 4.7GB then its an additional 10 dollars per 4.7GB disk.

I am going to have to start charging like you do " per additional GB" I have not gotten bit yet, but I have seen here lately where charging my normal flat rate $75 for data recovery whether its 1 GB or terabyte could have bit me. So yea, I may do like you and lower my initial flat rate and charge per 4.7GB after what the initial flat rate covers.

-Thanks

 

[Hercomputers]

I charge a flat in the range of $50-60.

Mr Unknown: I used to use GetDataBack when I worked at my first IT job several years ago, I swore by that program. Nice to see someone else familiar with it-

 

[kagman]

I used to use getdataback. Its been awhile since I have used it. Has anyone used the newest version?

 

[forbegos]

Is this a tool you need to buy? Or does it happen to be freeware/shareware?

Forbegos

 

[maclaptech]

If combine with repair, I usually charge $25 for the first 25 Gig and $1 per Gig for each additional Gig.

If not combined with any PC repair, I charge flat $99 per PC/hard drive.

 

[Majestic]

What do you guys charge for Data Recovery in shop? Do you do levels with a set GB range?

I generally charge for my time. That said, I don't consider it "work" when I'm waiting for getdataback to do what it has to do. The last recovery took 30 hours and I only charged $260 for it (4 hours residential).

Majestic

 

[callthatgirl]

We charge:

$50 for just getting data off before we troubleshoot, any size
$85 for a burn or flash to take it home (usually a burn works, if larger than a dvd, they must provide external hard drive)
$150 for data recovery (we use recover my data)

 

[Kitten Kong]

I charge a minimum of £40 for recovery, which is for the first 10gb, then its an extra £20 up to 40Gb, and any extra gb's are at £1.00. (I always have a external laptop drive handy, and back up to that, and then add the cost of the drive in with the bill. Customers are aware of this, and so far have loved it. Only once has a customer brought in their own media / ext drive.

I've been using getdataback for years, and love it.

 

[ITTech]

Flat Rate $299 for data recovery (if the files have been deleted or drive has been formatted or corrupted partition) If its just a data migration (non bootable drive or viruses / spyware then we charge $149).

the $299 also takes into account how long a data recovery job typically takes. At times it takes 24+ hours to recover data depending on the state of the drive. I have to lock up bench space and one of my data migration / repair "tech workstations" which I could use for other jobs. So its not just my time we charge for we also charge for our resources that are being used and other jobs have to wait in queue until a station frees up..

 

[inspektabrain]

Recently had a customer who spilled water on her laptop and fried it. Asked if I could get the data off the HD and I charged her $75. Removed the drive connected it to my pc with her External hooked up as well. Transfer Files, Unplug, replace drive, Done!! Now I think I'll have to charge less next time. However our local BIG BOX store told her $120 at both of them. So I guess I still saved her some money.



Edit: Heck from the sounds of it I could probably charge almost $80 an hour for a real Data Recovery!

 

[MTech]

Don't sweat charging what your worth!
The big boys, like i365 (http://www.i365.com/), that does the clean room data recovery is $1250 (Before taxes) for a desktop drive.

Staples Easy-Tech charge this amount very commonly. It doesn't matter if it's logical, physical, desktop or laptop, or otherwise, this rate is charged to any customer where the drive doesn't read in an external drive cage.

If you're able to get the data off of there, and possibly saving the customer's irreplaceable photos, documents, medical records; AND they aren't having to pay the equivalent of a down payment on a small car to get it, then you are doing them a favor!

 

[Nathan H]

Hey guys...... while we are on the subject Last summer I had a customer who gave me his media card (SD) to recover some photos from He said he deleted them while reformatting it (which later he said he done about 8 times, to try and get his pics back) I ran a few programs on his card, one of which took over 24hrs and they all recovered nothing. My question is how would you have billed this customer? After all it cost you time, electric, the software...etc would you have even billed him at all... any input is welcome

 

[Puff]

I charge depending on the difficulty. For example, if it's just a copy of data from a good working drive or an undelete I'll charge an hours labor at $49.95 plus $10.00 per disc if I'm burning the data to disc. Logical recoveries are $99.95. If I have to reverse image using software then it's $199 and if I end up using my hardware solution then I charge $299.

If I can't recover the data then I don't charge.

 

[SmR13]

$85 for the first 4.7GB then an extra $10 per 4.7GB.

 

[RegEdit]

How to you connect your drive to backup / recover data? Just slave your own internal drive to their computer?

 

[Itech]

How to you connect your drive to backup / recover data? Just slave your own internal drive to their computer?

i normally slave there drive to my computer or dock it