Its actually not, because it didn't include the month of stress worrying about whether it would recover, finding a recovery source, anger because I wanted to run Crashplan on the computer with the drive, but the my brother, the owner, insisting his backup plan was good. 

Add that to it, and backups become a necessity of life: water, food, shelter, backups!

Eric

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:46:53 -0700
Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

> not at all.
> The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a
> firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After
> the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully, however
> it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing. There was
> data that couldn't be recovered without replacing the heads. They
> offered to take it into their clean room for $750, replace the heads,
> and recover the rest of the data. I didn't need it (it was my
> brother's data and he was too cheap to pay for recovery), so I opted
> not to continue the recovery process.

This is the greatest advertisement, for backups, that I've ever seen.
Even with backups, I've been knocked back a whole week once or twice.

SteveT

Steve Litt
June 2015 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
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