Data recovery from a hard disk costs around $1,000. Recovering data from a flash drive or thumb drive is generally less than $500. Information recovery from an external drive might cost anything from $800 to $2,000. Recovering a NAS, SAN, or RAID array ranges from $1,000 to $10,000.

Data recovery is the process of restoring data that has been lost, accidentally deleted, corrupted or made inaccessible. In enterprise IT, data recovery typically refers to the restoration of data to a desktop, laptop, server or external storage system from a backup.

Whether or not it is worth paying for data recovery depends on the specific circumstances. Here are a few things to consider: The value of the data: If the data that you've lost is extremely valuable, such as important business documents or irreplaceable personal photos, then paying for data recovery may be worth it.

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