RapidSpar V2 – Now with Head Mapping, Multipass Imaging, and Financing

[lcoughey]

@Your PCMD, I don't know who offended you, but you need to chill.

 

[seedubya]

@PCMD - oh come on! There's been more than one drive model released each year FFS. I don't use their products at all and have no interest in doing so but I don't see anything wrong with paying $350 in updates for a machine with so much earning potential.

However, I do have a different question - with the unprecedented reduction in the quantity of spinning disks being sold and their increased reliability - how much ACTUAL value is there to be derived in getting into the lower end of the DR business? If this were 5 years ago I wouldn't question it. But in the last 5 years the numbers of failed disks I've seen has plummeted.

 

[lcoughey]

However, I do have a different question - with the unprecedented reduction in the quantity of spinning disks being sold and their increased reliability - how much ACTUAL value is there to be derived in getting into the lower end of the DR business? If this were 5 years ago I wouldn't question it. But in the last 5 years the numbers of failed disks I've seen has plummeted.

I do believe that the DeepSpar team is also working on adding support for various SSDs too. It is quite common for SSDs to have firmware issues and bad sectors too, but they are significantly more complicated to work with as the levels of encryption in the background are resulting in many recoverable cases (in the future) being tagged as unrecoverable because nobody has been able to reverse engineer a work around. Unfortunately, storage device manufacturers don't provide schematics or any support for the data recovery industry which makes it very expensive to buy drives and pay engineers to reverse engineer ways to communicate with them at a low level.

 

[Your PCMD]

@Your PCMD, I don't know who offended you, but you need to chill.

Oh I'm sorry. Forgive me for debating on a forum and voicing my own opinion.

I do believe that the DeepSpar team is also working on adding support for various SSDs too.

Will that add another $350/yr?

 

[lcoughey]

There are several data recovery hardware manufacturers out there who offered free updates and support. Sadly, they initially got a lot of sales, but as the funds stopped coming in, their updates became less frequent and the support started to disappear. Now they are the laughing stock of the data recovery industry.

There is a huge difference between tweaking a hard drive's firmware to improve its performance compared to paying a team to find ways to reverse engineer how to interact with that firmware. Although a drive may look the same to you between editions, most manufacturers are making it more complicated to access the firmware, many of which are now locking the firmware down with various levels of encryption.

At the end of the day, if you don't really understand how complex data recovery can be and how revolutionary the RapidSpar Imager is, there is no point in going further with trying to explain how good a deal the $350/year is.

Some insider information to the TN community. The established data recovery labs do not want this product to succeed. By your having this tool, it takes the easy money out of their hands. Of course, I have mixed feelings. But, I think anything that will decrease the chances of a tech destroying a client's data and increases the chance of getting their data back safely and cleanly has to be a good thing. So, rather than discourage techs from getting a RapidSpar, I'm offering support to resellers who have these units and use my clean room services, just as I do with those who already have a DeepSpar Imager.

 

[Matthew Bradley]

which makes it very expensive to buy drives and pay engineers to reverse engineer ways to communicate with them at a low level.

If only there were a low level HARDWARE solution available that charged very fair yearly updates that would help pay to reverse engineer newer drives! We can dream, I suppose.

/s

 

[Blues]

More than what most are willing to pay?

RapidSpar Device plus Rapidspar Software Suite $1950.00
Set of Adapters (extra) $300.00
Data Acqusition Add-on $850.00
Extend RapidNebula Access by 1 Year $350.00

$3,495.00 if you got one of everything. Your ROI mileage will greatly vary.

In my area I have seen data recovery charges that were approximately 75% the price of that device and what was recovered was no better than what I had already recovered. My point being while that is a hefty price tag in my area you wouldn't need but a handful of data recovery jobs to cover that and while may not be doing as much work as them you could charge 10% the cost of this device reasonably still leaving a small number of jobs needed to cover this cost. I will say it depends on the size of your operation as to weather you could expect to have that much work I know for me data recovery is often one of the fewest jobs I get particularly with everyone moving to cloud storage. I will say if you work for businesses this is more likely to be of use as a business data means a lot more and if they have remote users on laptops who are normal users odds are things aren't saved where they should be and at risk.