On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:16:46PM -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > > If you can get 80GB of data recovered for NZ$300 + media then you are
> > > stoked. I'd send hard drives from here in the US for that price.
> >
> > Oops... misquoted price... $360 NZ + media... still...
>
> Yep, still. Also, I meant I'd send drives from here in the US to NZ for
> that price. That's an absolute bargain.
>
> BUT: what's their track record? Have they got references?
Dunno... I've sent them an e-mail. We'll see if they respond.
I think part of the low price is that this is an ordinary problem with
Maxtors that does not involve platter scraping to recover from. It's
a corruption at some level (scrambled data and/or dodgy sectors) of
the reserved area that includes block translation, etc.
For a drive with an arbitrary problem, I can easily see the costs
mounting.
-ethan
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