RedShoe

dude, I had one crash real bad and none of those data recovery people could do it. They told me about high end hardcore data recovery people that literally pull the drive apart in a "clean room" and place all the internal disks one a large table and read each disk individually. It takes like a week to do. The date comes off very slow and is reconstructed on a new HD.

Starting cost is 2K.

Instead of doing that I invested in a 1.5 Terabyte RAID setup.

Bottom line is, no one will know how fucked that drive is until they look at it.

Cheer up, it could be worse... you could be dickless.

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