4 May
2010
4 May
'10
1:09 p.m.
On 4 May 2010 at 20:28, Tony Duell wrote:
I think what would bother me most is the seemingly
random pricing
structure. If they had said 'We will recover the data from your drive
for $1000, flat rate' then fine. Pay them the money if they get your
data back. But if they are going to have different charges according
to what work they do (e.g whether the HDA has to be opened in a clean
room) they I think they have ot eplain what work they did to justify
those charges.
Do you know if the NVRAM was replaced (did you mark the old chip, or
note down the date code, or...)? Does the old drive now work
correctly? (Not that I would trust it for any important data, but it
would be interesting to test it)).
The NVRAM on the Deathstar is JTAG-programmable (in fact, this is one
way to get around the password scheme). I suspect that the recovery
house simply reprogrammed it. Had it been an actual board-level
repair, I suspect that the price would have been much higher, if the
basic "we'll look at it" price was $700.
--Chuck