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Freecom launches data recovery service
STORAGE FIRM Freecom has launched a Data Recovery Service to help you recover the precious data you forgot to back up before your hard drive crashed.
According to Freecom the majority of drives crash due to hardware failures, although human error, software failures, viruses and natural disasters also factor in there.
While data recovery firms have been around for ages, the service is usually pretty pricey, but Freecom's more insurance style service brings it into the realm of the general consumer.
The service covers all brands of hard drives, external and internal alike. End users need to register each device, and in the event of a hard drive crash, Freecom reckons it'll have the data off within two weeks and return it to the user with no additional costs for postage and packaging.
Although the company is obviously keen to get you sign up for the service, Axel Lucassen, the firm's managing director does say that the "first piece of advice would be to back up all this information in multiple locations to be extra sure you won't lose it all."
The company also advises keeping storage devices away from heat sources, turning off external drives when not in use, minimising movement when they are operating, defragmenting drives regularly and keeping anti-virus systems up to date.
The service, run in partnership with data recovery specialists Lazarus, gives you three years cover for any hard drive for £24.95. µ
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No data recovery service can give a data recovery gtee. Have to admit I am pleasantly surprised if the price is just £24.95 rather than say that amount per month.. or have I just hit on the Nubbin? Business prices are normally priced in excess of any consumer version.. and £100 gets a full 2tb disk.. enuff at present to perform a full backup (of my, and Romania's, Data )
Nice, but whats the catch. Beyond defragmenting drives can cause you to have problems recovering deleted files.
Also not exactly ideal if the user has a flash drive, indeed those are a whole different kettle of fish.
I will confess I havn't checked there website out but I'll assume this is just for NTFS/FAT/FAT32 drives; don't see them jumping onto the EXT4/JFS and other exotic flavours of formats.
Also suspect this is a flat fee and affords no garantee of recovery.
But given you can get your car covered by the AA or RAC etc for breakdowns for a small price then this is a step in the right direction. One day we will have ocmputers reliable enough to be given a breakdown cover, though it does put things into perspective that a car with more moving parts, exposed to the elements can be helped in a emergency alot easier, quicker and way cheaper than any computer support package about - even this.
Still, nice step in the right direction and wish them well.