Data Recovery Cost for Hard Drive, RAID, Servers, SSD & Flash Drives

The most common question for recovery is regarding the data recovery cost or charges that are applicable to restore data from the hard drive or media. The recovery price-list for any storage media depends on the following 3 factors:

Kind of Drive or Media: Laptop or Desktop/ PC and Portable hard disk drives (HDD) / SSD / SSHD , Server recovery or RAID-like SAS and SCSI hard drives / Flash drive like memory cards / SD cards. Every storage media has to be handled differently and hence charges varies.
Kind of Damages on Media: Either basic deleted recovery or formatted Logical issues, Board damages, Firmware issues, CRC I/O Errors, Media or Physical damages, the data recovery cost varies on how simple or how complex is the damage.
Technology and Time Dedication, Data Recovery Levels:

          Level 1: Deleted / Formatted issues can be completed in 1 or 2 days at basic charges.
          Level 2: Hardware level issues like firmware or CRC errors would take about 2 to 5 days at medium or low cost.
          Level 3: Physical or media level issues take about 5 to 15 days of time & cost of donor drives, lab level work in Bangalore will be involved during the recovery process.

Hard Disk – HDD, SSD & SSHD Data Recovery Cost

Estimated data recovery cost for Laptop / Desktop PC / Portable Hard drives (HDD), Solid state drives (SATA SSD), Solid State Hybrid Hard Drives (SSHD) & Camera Hard Disk Drives.

Media Type: Hard Disk HDD / SATA SSD / SSHD (PATA, ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0 or External portable hard drives)

Brands: Seagate Expansion and Backup, Western Digital Elements & Passport series, Toshiba Canvio, Hitachi, HGST, Samsung, Fujitsu, Maxtor, HP, IBM, Quantum, IOmega, Transcend, Dell, Lenovo, Lacie and all brands of personal hard drives are covered in the following data recovery cost.

Hard Disk – HDD, SSD & SSHD Data Recovery

Recovery Type	Media Condition	Quote (INR)	Time
Level 1: Logical Recovery	Format Recovery, Partition Loss, Deleted Files & Folders. Media Condition: Good & Working	2,000 /-	1 – 2 Working Day
Level 1: Overwritten Logical Recovery	New Operating System Installation, Partition Overwrite, or new data overwrite. Media Condition: Good & Working	3,000 /- to 5,000 /-	2 Days
Level 2: Electronic or PCB Board Issues	Circuit / PCB board Electronic Failure / Damaged due to power failure or excess voltage.	Above 3,000 /-	2 to 4 Days
Level 2: Firmware Damages	Firmware / Service Area issues.	Above 6,000 /-	2 to 4 Days
Level 2: Disk Error Recovery	CRC Errors, IO Errors, Windows Delayed Write Failure, Bad Sectors	Above 5,000 /- Depends on Error size & Media condition.	3 to 5 Days
Level 3: Motor Issues	No Motor rotation, Buzzing Noise, Beeping Noise, Spindle Motor rotation issue, Motor RPM issues, Problem in Rotations	Above 8,000 /- Depends on Work and Spares required. during work.	3 to 5 Days
Level 3: Media / Physical Level Issues	Clicking Noise, Scratching Noise, Click of Death, Media Level Failure, Knocking Noise, Drilling Noise, Slow Clicks and Beeps	Above 12,000 /- Vary on Drive Capacity, Work & Spares required. during work.	5 to 15 Days
Level 4: Water / Fire Level Damaged Drives	Water damaged due to drenched media or water spilling on the disk, Fire damages the hard drive with burning on the electronics and hard disk upper metal surface or enclosure. Drive damages due to excess fall and enclose is bent due to pressure or height of damages.	Above 15,000 /- Depends on Work & Spares.	15 to 25 Days.
Level 4: Tampered Drive Data Recovery	Tampered Hard drives from other non-professional companies, or Computer vendors or DIY Activity on own has lead the media handled in Non-Clean room environment.	Above 15,000 /- + First Component or Spare parts charges to be paid from customer.	15 to 25 Days

Encrypted Drive Recovery Price-List

Hard Drive HDD and Solid State Drives SSD, SSHD cheap data recovery cost for Encryption like Bit-locker, PGP, Symantec endpoint encryption, True-crypt, McAfee encryption, Checkpoint, FileVault of Macintosh drives, Safeguard, EFS, Sofos encryption and other password protected drives.

Media Type: Hard Disk HDD / SSD / SSHD (PATA, ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0 or external portable hard drives)

Encrypted Hard Drive & SSD Recovery

Recovery Type	Media Condition	Media Type	Quote (INR)	Time
Level 1: ENCRYPTED HARD DISK or SSD RECOVERY	Media without Errors. Operating system issues or decryption errors.	(ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0), SSD, SSHD Bitlocker and Truecrypt	8,000 /-	5 Days
Level 2:	Media with Sector Errors (Detected but cannot access due to multiple bad sectors)	(ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0), SSD, SSHD, Bitlocker and Truecrypt	Above 12,000 /-	8 Days
Level 3:	Media with HDD Not Detected. Clicking & Grinding Noise drives.	(ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0), SSD, SSHD, Bitlocker and Truecrypt	Above 18,000 /-	12 to 18 Days
Level 3:	Media without Errors. Operating system issues or decryption errors.	(ATA, SATA, 1.8″,2.5″,3.5″ HDD, USB 2.0 & 3.0), SSD, SSHD Mc-Cafe Endpoint & Safeboot Encryption Symantic Boot & Full Disk Encryption PGP Encryption TrendMicro, Sofos, Pointsec.. Other encrypted media	Above 12,000 /- Additional Charges for Hardware or Physical issues.	Upto 15 Days