Worked with a customer who used these guys, they recovered 100% of the data on a proprietary constructed drive from the early 1980's in a one of a kind system and it was only like 20MB of storage. This was in 2011 and DriveSavers just stripped down the drive to the raw platters and mounted them on a custom spindel rig to read the 1s/0s. Then they analyzed how the drive arranged data on the platters from the chips on the controller and reverse engineered how to read the data and shipped the data back to us on a USB drive. Highly impressed and the recovery of the data save probably 6 months of information that was vital to a new system that was replacing the three decades old system.
@@raptors222222 It is, unless You are rich enough to waste Your money for anything, so You prefer to recover old data. And You didn't answered the question, You avoided it as it was shameful. Why? I wouldn't pay for example 1000$ to recover a data, cause I prefer to eat, to sleep in warm home and have some things that matters more than data. Of course there are suepr rich people for whom spending 1000$ is nothing, but not everyone is rich. Remember that.
@@raptors222222 I think he thought you were the OP. Then proceeded to explain that not everyone can afford $1000 for data recovery. But he failed to realize that, if you are a person in a position/career that is going to need data from an old drive, you probably have the money for something like that.
Well gotta learn from your mistakes lol No but to be fair it wasn't actually ALL the data, just a clickbait title and nowadays they do have Synchronisation with an external cloud type storage as to never lose data again.
I like the whole "They sponsored us down here" instead of the usual malarkey such as "They invited us down" "[Insert Brand here] were aweeeeeesome to let us come on down here" - The way you stated this gave CLEAR indication this was fully sponsored by them, and not only that, its stated at the very beginning of the video. Excellent transparency from LMG.
I had deal with the savers before, and last time experience was a hoax, so I research their competitor and surprise surprise half the price and real service
Yeah, think I'll trust the word of a company that's been around for decades and has dozens upon dozens of world-famous clients over some random kid on RUclips who can't even speak proper English and clearly has an axe to grind.
This is an educational, fascinating, and tasteful use of sponsored content! Plus it makes me appreciate DriveSavers all that much more for their transparency. Please keep it up with awesome content like this! :D
That's not what it meant. If he just physically removed the camera then they wouldn't need data recovery, just to look in the gallery. It meant he went into the camera folder and deleted the images
I concur let sleeping dogs lay linus!! that was real bonehead! bro. before you open your mouth think about your family, friends etc who you can innocently put in harms way.
1:45 My grandpa had one of those in the 80s and he told me that he and his mates said that they were 100% sure that they would never run out of storage
Yeah I can easily see this place having many of its PC's connected to an internal network but not to the outside considering the type of data they are recovering at times. AKA intranet is indeed a REAL thing.
Too bad RUclips doesn't have a love it button. Dude you and your team are so lucky to get sponsorship to places like this. It's a testament to your own hard work. Love your videos- this one was tops.
Ripping the "camera element" out of a phone to "destroy the images" and then "placing it back on the victim" is probably the dumbest, most convoluted shit I've heard haha. Basically, once it's in your possession, dispose of it in a way in which data recovery is absolutely impossible. Which honestly is not that difficult. All that criminal did was plant his own evidence all over the crime scene.
After violently shaking every HDD he takes in his hands I'm surprised that they didn't beat the living shit out of him. IT'S NOT A COCKTAIL MIXER, IT'S A HARD DRIVE!
I've used their service before in a previous job. Some engineer saved a bunch of CAD drawings to their PCs local drive instead of to the network drive and then their had drive crashed. Drive Savers got everything back. They're pretty awesome in their ability to get data back. Love the video tour!
MIND NOVA yeah, those brands worked with linus many times. This time this company is big and unique, but I think most normal people don't know it, so it is rather a special collabration. just like the previous ones eg quantum computer, nuclear fusion etc
Yeah, Doesn't matter if it is. If they need for re-install a fresh copy of windows each time, to remove all the possible "Contamination". and you do about 3 to 5 hard-drive recovers a day as an example. There isn't any point for a windows activation. Windows activation doesn't do too much anyway.
When I used a data recovery service for a company I worked at the cost was $1,500. They don't charge based on the amount of data, in this case it was 8GB, they charge for the operation itself (plus parts.)
5:21 My first HDD! Anyone who's ever had one will remember with a tear in their eye what the drives did every 10-15 minutes - as described by one person, "like throwing a spanner into a blender."
Not really. It's pretty much standard for a data recovery company. It's just the way americans are acting like it's special tbh. Everything has to be uh and oh and the best, even if it just isn't at all. That's the reason I don't like american documentations. Not really sticking to the facts, more like an entertainment show for the masses.
Mr. Pink wow you took someone’s completely normal comment and somehow turned it into an anti America rant. THAT is impressive. Can you kindly fuck off back to whatever shit hole country your from just as quickly?
Star Gaming if it hurts you so badly, that I described the "american" way to present stuff and expressed that I don't like this way of overacting in a "documentation" type of format, maybe go and see a doctor or just get rid of your stupid national pride thingy. Btw. my "shit hole country" has a higher living standard as well as a higher educational standard than yours, asuming that you are from the USA (which btw. is not "America" by definition and therefor Canadians are also Americans @Deadly SP ;) ) Oh, and Star Gaming, a rant would need someone who rants, what I clearly did not.^^
Rossman is on different ballgame, this facility is on a different ballgame. Rossman doesn't really recover he fix motherboards, he fix voltage. Drivesavers recover data from impossible to possible. Comming from a data recovery engineer myself. Rossman do the basic of fixing things, drivesavers just went out their own method in a non conventional way like recovery from a burned drive. HOLY FCK.
Rossman just owns a repair shop, focusing mainly on macbooks and iphones. He can probably do basic backup for most cases of failure, but if it were more extreme, he would probably just recommend a place like that shown in the video. It wouldn't be profitable for such a small fish as Rossman to have a $2 million clean room, since most of his profit comes from board repair.
+AIRPLANES I have a video on my channel doing a platter swap at the very least and we've done quite a few heads replacements. The video is mostly live and unedited so you can watch the entire process. J9P4UadRdNA is the video ID for the one I can find doing a quick search at 1 AM. That laminar flow bench costs a few thousand dollars. Jessa Jones recently livestreamed recovering an iPhone that drivesavers couldn't. I can tell you that while you do need a clean environment, you do not need a 2 million dollar clean room to do any of this. This isn't to be self serving or to say we are the only ones who can do this. It isn't even to say we are the best. Nathan Irvine & Brian Cometa run an AMAZING business on the west coast performing miracles on all sorts of drives everyone else declared dead and they do it sub-$1000 price range regularly. While what we do is often difficult, I have spent most of my career in the field trying to demystify this idea that you need to be some rocket scientist to get any of this done, and filming that all is an attempt to prove that. If this still exists for data recovery, perhaps we should do more data recovery videos to drive this point home. I do not think someone entirely inexperienced should be mucking around expecting great results, but at the same time, this isn't magic or wizardry requiring NSA level technicians and million dollar machinery. It's same as everything else, brains and ingenuity. Just my 2 cents.
Great reply. I wasnt hating in my post like the repleis beneath me, i legit would just find it interesting to see you go head to head with this sort of outfit BECAUSE the way you run your shop. Brains and ingenuity. Heck yeah.
I wish drive savers would post a bunch of crazy stories of data that was saved. It would be fun to watch or read about some of those stories. the radioactive one for example.
I used to work for a Data Recovery Company. Kroll OnTrack is probably the gold standard, followed closely by Drive Savers. We did smaller jobs with Erased Files, RAID Controller Problems, Actuators.. but DS has some really nice tools. Data Recovery is EXTREMELY expensive and not worth it to most people. Starts at $595 and goes up quickly to thousands
Sadly they can never recover the ones I sold I thought I was pretty cool for making $1200 profit on a $200 investment Turns out it would be worth 1.6mil now -.- fml
I think the difference between DriveSavers and Linus Tech Tips is that DriveSavers actually needs/uses all the hardware and costly equipment they own. Linus seems adept at cloaking the inefficiency of his business in a technological bureaucracy but somehow turns that to his advantage by making everything look way more sophisticated and serious than it actually is. It's kinda brilliant as a model, because all these tech companies know he has an audience and that they can make money off his viewership. So... the more bloated and needlessly complex his production process, the better his company does with sponsorships. Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant. I tip my hat to you for turning a workflow that can be done on 6 workstations into something that requires a warehouse of property, a server closet and enough unused product to feed a small nation for a year.
I never... Ever... thought I'd see a hard drive getting repaired. I admire that. I've had to take a Luddite approach to data storage and only keep very specific things, copying only from a copy of a copy of a master.
You loaded foistwarez on your grandma's PC to mine Bitcoin since she always left the thing on and didn't know what a fast PC was her entire life. There is a pit in hades reserved for exploiters of family.
it means 3 backups of your data on 2 different backup media types where 1 is stored off site (other building, town, nation, ...) to prevent fire, floods, wars, ... depending on how important that data is.
I personally find Western Digital to be less reliable, but I stopped using both a while back and now go with HGST (even though WD did buy it, it's still amazing IMO). Or Tobshiba if it's something I care less about.
Yeah, that's lucky. I had an old 40G PATA Travelstar and its bearings screamed for days before it failed. Gave me plenty of time to back it up. HGST drives rock. Seagates were fine, back in the day. The 200M RLL in my old Satellite only hiccups once in a while. I have another PATA Travelstar made in 2004 that is still going strong. It has run for over a year solid without spin-downs, thanks to bug in facebook. My WD MyBooks half that age that never spin, I'm starting to grit my teeth about.
Dear Linus, I want to personally thank you here for your contagious enthusiam and relevant education I have received from watching and listening to your videos. Bless you, my good man.
I used their service to recover my thesis film project, my god, they're amazing at what they do! but be warned, it's is pretty hella expensive, depending on the extend of the damage. I had to dish out around 1200 dollars to recover my files.
They say on their website that the average extraction is about $1500, so yeah, not cheap at ALL. But also not obscene or exploitative, given the effort and technology required. It may simply not be worth the effort for anything that can be replaced for less than ~$1500 worth of effort.
@@jasoncarswell7458 It actually is pretty exploitative at this point. The company sells services mostly based off name recognition now. The only stuff they do that's truly worth the price tag is recovery on extremely not standard equipment. They are very good at recovering data off of weird one of a kind tech and proprietary software. But their prices for consumer hardware recovery is like 8-10x that of their newer and less known, but equally capable (in the consumer space) competitors. They've also been accused of quoting prices and then billing far higher prices before. The company is as much a PR firm as it is a data recovery company now. For example: the 2 million $ clean room thing is a marketing lie, it's not really accurate. They mean that the tech in there, if you went by its original prices/add a lot of labor costs at insane dollar amounts is 2 million. The tech in there is not largely worth 2 million. This video also talks about their 'security' which is mostly theatre meant to placate high net worth clients with the promise of discretion and security. The building itself isn't really any more secure than any other, and their 'color changing badges' are absolutely a marketing gimmick. in all but the most high level situations, you're better googling your local data recovery company and calling them for a tenth of the price. Industry standard in consumer recovery is as low as 1$ a GB now, usually 100-200$ an hour for a well-trained and accredited expert. These guys have been quoted charging up to hundreds of dollars per GB of consumer recovered data, when that only makes sense on industry level hardware. Another example is that their Yelp page is blatantly faked. They actually have two reviews from supposedly different people, BOTH with responses from people working at the company. We're talking carbon copied 5 paragraph reviews from different accounts. That's quite possibly the biggest red flag there is.
Its nothing more than a commercial for that company that he did. And ofc we eat it raw. If it was to be informative in anyway he would have been recovering somthing from a drive i brought along. and not just boasted about how "great" they where.
This was a pretty cool episode. I honestly had no idea that there were data recovery companies out there that could do such extensive and impressive work.
DriveSavers Data Recovery: geni.us/RoXeuj
how can this be 30 minutes ago?
Hi Linus 👍
GunGamer they uploaded it scheduled and they can post stuff before...
Huh.... makes sense :)
Linus Tech Tips bet they are very "enthusiastic" about solid state hard drives and there are obvious problems with recovering data from them
Bruh imagine just working there and there is this Linus just talking hella loud and having fun 😂
Honestly why is he yelling 😂
Emojis are not needed
@@kurczeblade2655 redditor spotted ew
@@kutsumiru Idiot spotted fuck u
None Of Ur Business redditor spotted
Worked with a customer who used these guys, they recovered 100% of the data on a proprietary constructed drive from the early 1980's in a one of a kind system and it was only like 20MB of storage. This was in 2011 and DriveSavers just stripped down the drive to the raw platters and mounted them on a custom spindel rig to read the 1s/0s. Then they analyzed how the drive arranged data on the platters from the chips on the controller and reverse engineered how to read the data and shipped the data back to us on a USB drive. Highly impressed and the recovery of the data save probably 6 months of information that was vital to a new system that was replacing the three decades old system.
that's fucking insane and professional.
how much it cost for doing that??.
I can’t imagine the billable hours for that
@@raptors222222 It is, unless You are rich enough to waste Your money for anything, so You prefer to recover old data. And You didn't answered the question, You avoided it as it was shameful. Why? I wouldn't pay for example 1000$ to recover a data, cause I prefer to eat, to sleep in warm home and have some things that matters more than data. Of course there are suepr rich people for whom spending 1000$ is nothing, but not everyone is rich. Remember that.
@@raptors222222 I think he thought you were the OP. Then proceeded to explain that not everyone can afford $1000 for data recovery. But he failed to realize that, if you are a person in a position/career that is going to need data from an old drive, you probably have the money for something like that.
I wish I could borrow their clean room so I can flawlessly put
my screen protector on.
b3ans4eva that’s so good I gotta say
And it still be crooked
Would still somehow get specks of dirt on it
Yeah but it's too cold there
I want to fill the room with fish tanks.
LTT: "so the take away here: always make back ups!"
Next LTT video recommended by RUclips: "All of our data is GONE!"
Well gotta learn from your mistakes lol
No but to be fair it wasn't actually ALL the data, just a clickbait title and nowadays they do have Synchronisation with an external cloud type storage as to never lose data again.
The video " All of our data is GONE!" was filmed before!
It is said, Linus dropped a drive so good, these guys couldn't recover it.
Maddin1313 yes
*hard
Indeed ! XD
I am going to guess that is true. lol (Also, I think you mean every hard drive he touched couldnt be recovered.) lol
narrated by Morgan Freeman
So in short, you have to be a pro Minesweeper player to do data recovery 8:17
I get the reference
Yeh sounds right.
Lmao😂😂
I like the whole "They sponsored us down here" instead of the usual malarkey such as "They invited us down" "[Insert Brand here] were aweeeeeesome to let us come on down here" - The way you stated this gave CLEAR indication this was fully sponsored by them, and not only that, its stated at the very beginning of the video.
Excellent transparency from LMG.
Harvles93 dat t r a n s p a r e n c y
I had deal with the savers before, and last time experience was a hoax, so I research their competitor and surprise surprise half the price and real service
Can you name the competitor please.
Yeah, think I'll trust the word of a company that's been around for decades and has dozens upon dozens of world-famous clients over some random kid on RUclips who can't even speak proper English and clearly has an axe to grind.
LAGARTIJOcabezon how full of shit are you???
3:04
Murdurer: *thinks to him/herself "the photos must have been stored in the camera."
*Takes out the camera and puts the phone back
Did Linus putting his sticker on top of his hoodie string give anyone else anxiety?
NOOOOO I DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE IT UNTIL NOW
@@augzgamer9247 yes I really wanted it to not be on it
Saw it, did not care.
ughhhh
Yes.
I thought I was the only one.
0:53 Ahhh it hurts to watch! He put the sticker on the hood string!
I know what you mean, I wanted to rip that sticker off.
Right!
0:35 Security step no.1: LOCK LINUS OUT.
They thought Luke was coming to do the video.
So, you're telling me the way they crack the security on the drives is a game of minesweeper? I have years of experience for this job
But if you hit a mine, the drive blows up
xyzzy
Now give me all your money
So basically the hacking mini game in System Shock 2.
0:34 'Let's Go Inside..."
Forgot to read the sign right behind him lol
lol when i saw that, "sound of silence" started to play in my head :)
Since when a scripted joke its a fail?
Lmao 😂🤣
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I apologize and so sorry to the poor editor who had to mask and blur just about every object! :)
Step 1: get recorded murdering someone
Step 2: destroy lens after the fact
Step 3: ??????
Step 4: get away with it
step 3 is to just enjoy ur 25 years in jail
This is an educational, fascinating, and tasteful use of sponsored content! Plus it makes me appreciate DriveSavers all that much more for their transparency. Please keep it up with awesome content like this! :D
Amazing comment
My wife's dream, 0% dust.
that's my mum's dream. Are you my das? jks
My wife's private parts.. 100% the opposite
space?
Nope, lots of junk and a Tesla roadster there...
Your wife's dream is a better husband. Lmaodab
If I break this camera, it will destroy all of the pictures it ever took. #Logic
That's not what it meant. If he just physically removed the camera then they wouldn't need data recovery, just to look in the gallery. It meant he went into the camera folder and deleted the images
it will also release all of the souls that it stole.
@@rufus7207 No, he specifically said the camera element was gouged out. Try again.
3:04
@@rufus7207 Or he did physically remove the camera to delete the photos and the phone was not functional and/or the flash storage was damaged.
sd card duh
The nametag over the string tho.....
That one move made me hunt through the comments for this. Thank you.
OCD OCD
Ikr, for some reason that bugged me haha
that pissed me off
I'm not the only one slightly annoyed by it
'Good work idiot' My motto is never mess with the guy who went to jail for *MURDER*
Leo that's a weirdly specific motto.
Leo he is an idiot though... he got caught
yup he has friends
how do you know
I concur let sleeping dogs lay linus!! that was real bonehead! bro. before you open your mouth think about your family, friends etc who you can innocently put in harms way.
1:45
My grandpa had one of those in the 80s and he told me that he and his mates said that they were 100% sure that they would never run out of storage
Lol😂
8:25 Windows isnt activated xD
probability it is was not ever connected to internet!
windows does that when you don't connect to the internet and it can't call home
But its connected, see on the right bottom.
connected to a network doesn't mean connected to internet my dude
Yeah I can easily see this place having many of its PC's connected to an internal network but not to the outside considering the type of data they are recovering at times. AKA intranet is indeed a REAL thing.
Being someone who works in a clean room, the $2Mil isn't too big of a deal, it's the stuff that goes in it and the protocols they have in place.
Too bad RUclips doesn't have a love it button. Dude you and your team are so lucky to get sponsorship to places like this. It's a testament to your own hard work. Love your videos- this one was tops.
You know who else has got your back? TunnelBear, the easy to use VPN solution! Use offer code Linus to get a 20 % discount XD
hahaha you made my day
marc van doorn their darn sponsor mentioning in every video, I have nightmares of the Tunnelbear sneaking up on me while I sleep :O
Yeah you get a like for that effort :p
exxxdee
Lul what's up with the likes 😂
Rumors say they couldn’t recover the drives Linus dropped.
Those are amusig rumors^^
Those are facts, actually.
2:12 I want to hear the backstory to that fish so badly.
8:19 So this is where all those guys who are GOOD at minesweeper end up...
Ripping the "camera element" out of a phone to "destroy the images" and then "placing it back on the victim" is probably the dumbest, most convoluted shit I've heard haha.
Basically, once it's in your possession, dispose of it in a way in which data recovery is absolutely impossible. Which honestly is not that difficult.
All that criminal did was plant his own evidence all over the crime scene.
betchalife light it on fire right
No? Ball Peen Hammer & Magnet.
betchalife o
Thermite should do the trick nicely.
blender
7:50 This is Rusolut Visual NAND reconstructor (Rusolut VNR)
I work for a Russian data recovery company
looks like ms paint haha
Who else got pissed when he put the nametag over his hoodie string
Just the shivers of myself doing something so braindead because i have to look into the camera.
me
Lol me too ooffff
No one
Massive psychopath.
I'm surprised they let you touch those really old drives.
ArduinoBen i’m surprised he didnt drop them
After violently shaking every HDD he takes in his hands I'm surprised that they didn't beat the living shit out of him.
IT'S NOT A COCKTAIL MIXER, IT'S A HARD DRIVE!
They know LMG is good for the money. After all, they record this shit on Red Cameras now. I'de trust anyone with a Red Camera :D
5:20 did you have permission to pick those up :D
0:34 Linus trying to get to his dreams.
Got my latest Crysis Save file on a Vinyl record.
nukedbunny did you know there was a vinyl video player ??
scottrich976, I used to have one when I was younger (was given to us for free). I think the only vinyl I owned for it was an episode of Charlie Brown.
@@scottrich976 Are you talking about RCA's CED video disc?
I've used their service before in a previous job. Some engineer saved a bunch of CAD drawings to their PCs local drive instead of to the network drive and then their had drive crashed. Drive Savers got everything back. They're pretty awesome in their ability to get data back. Love the video tour!
finally a video without tunnel bear or square space :)
btw, i am happy for linus that big brands respect him and collabrate with him!
Jack, you know that many of the big PC part companies work with him right? (Intel, Asus, etc.)
MIND NOVA yeah, those brands worked with linus many times. This time this company is big and unique, but I think most normal people don't know it, so it is rather a special collabration. just like the previous ones eg quantum computer, nuclear fusion etc
Linus don't jam with Tunnelbear now anyway since they got bought out by Mcafee.
8:17 - couldn't they've recovered a windows license?
Yes
The classic 😂
lmfao
why would you need windows themes at a data recovery center lollol
Yeah, Doesn't matter if it is. If they need for re-install a fresh copy of windows each time, to remove all the possible "Contamination". and you do about 3 to 5 hard-drive recovers a day as an example. There isn't any point for a windows activation. Windows activation doesn't do too much anyway.
8:17 That is just Minesweeper on a whole next level
Another fantastic video by LTT 👍
When I used a data recovery service for a company I worked at the cost was $1,500. They don't charge based on the amount of data, in this case it was 8GB, they charge for the operation itself (plus parts.)
Obviously. It takes no more or less effort for them if it's 1MB vs 1TB.
5:21 My first HDD! Anyone who's ever had one will remember with a tear in their eye what the drives did every 10-15 minutes - as described by one person, "like throwing a spanner into a blender."
This is some next level magic
Not really. It's pretty much standard for a data recovery company. It's just the way americans are acting like it's special tbh. Everything has to be uh and oh and the best, even if it just isn't at all. That's the reason I don't like american documentations. Not really sticking to the facts, more like an entertainment show for the masses.
Mr. Pink They’re a Canadian company. So technically this is a Canadian made video.
Mr. Pink wow you took someone’s completely normal comment and somehow turned it into an anti America rant. THAT is impressive. Can you kindly fuck off back to whatever shit hole country your from just as quickly?
Star Gaming hes russian, so hes pretty much your boss
Star Gaming if it hurts you so badly, that I described the "american" way to present stuff and expressed that I don't like this way of overacting in a "documentation" type of format, maybe go and see a doctor or just get rid of your stupid national pride thingy. Btw. my "shit hole country" has a higher living standard as well as a higher educational standard than yours, asuming that you are from the USA (which btw. is not "America" by definition and therefor Canadians are also Americans @Deadly SP ;) ) Oh, and Star Gaming, a rant would need someone who rants, what I clearly did not.^^
I bet Louis Rossmann would re-solder that A10 chip by hand
Hahaha... Fellow man of culture!
Freehand, on live stream, while riding his bicycle and complaining about rent and lockdowns
We used to use drivesavers at my old work! such a good shop!
You know who else has got your back? Your spine, the easy to use standing solution! Use offer code Linus to get a 1000 % discount
So if I use the offer code, I'll get 10 additional spines?
Nicholas Steel Yea I think so
That Twisted Sister album is amazing. I'm very glad it was recovered.
I once had a drive fail on me.
Steam cloud am I right?
You know who don't need datarecovery? Tunnelbear!!
Am I the only one that gets nervous every time Linus holds a hard drive.
My drive is hard
Hey Novato thats my neck of the woods. Love those hills.
I fucking love these types of videos too.
Came here to say I love these types of videos too! are you me?
Petaluma in the house!
san rafael it was weird seeing linus in marin
It is crazy to think Linus was filming just a few minutes from my house.
I'm from Marin- my mom took her soaked camera here to get back the photos from a wedding, only cost like $400.
How you know if you need a Backup:
Is the Data important to you?
- Yes? --> Backup Your Data
- No? --> Do whatever you want
6:16 in quarantine, all must wear this kind of gear inside or outside
I'll clean my room for free...lol
RandomFlatShowsvideos i usually get punched as payment if i didn‘t clean my room correctly.
Legentex OW well punch them back there's a thing called self defense
It was a joke lol
Kolby Brian2412 Actually your parents are allowed to hit you below the waist and without leaving a mark for disiplinary reasons.
What ever happened to whipping your child without being sent to prison for child abuse?
Wish they could recover scare pewdiepie 2
First time watching such a video of a hdd recovery center. Thanks for this!
1:02 the sticker over the hoodie drawstring bothers me
8:26 even drive savers can't afford to activate Windows 10, and their running Home.
ArduinoBen you can get windows 10 for free if you lie to Customer support
Lol
ArduinoBen lol
How? I just use KMS
They spent all the money on the room.
DriveSavers: We can recover your data no matter how bad the condition of the drive.
Linus: Hold my beer
Tell them to send Louis Rossman down and have a face off for recovering something!
And let him argue why something can't be done while the guys at DriveSavers just do it in front of him.
Rossman is on different ballgame, this facility is on a different ballgame. Rossman doesn't really recover he fix motherboards, he fix voltage. Drivesavers recover data from impossible to possible. Comming from a data recovery engineer myself. Rossman do the basic of fixing things, drivesavers just went out their own method in a non conventional way like recovery from a burned drive. HOLY FCK.
Rossman just owns a repair shop, focusing mainly on macbooks and iphones. He can probably do basic backup for most cases of failure, but if it were more extreme, he would probably just recommend a place like that shown in the video. It wouldn't be profitable for such a small fish as Rossman to have a $2 million clean room, since most of his profit comes from board repair.
+AIRPLANES I have a video on my channel doing a platter swap at the very least and we've done quite a few heads replacements. The video is mostly live and unedited so you can watch the entire process. J9P4UadRdNA is the video ID for the one I can find doing a quick search at 1 AM. That laminar flow bench costs a few thousand dollars.
Jessa Jones recently livestreamed recovering an iPhone that drivesavers couldn't. I can tell you that while you do need a clean environment, you do not need a 2 million dollar clean room to do any of this.
This isn't to be self serving or to say we are the only ones who can do this. It isn't even to say we are the best. Nathan Irvine & Brian Cometa run an AMAZING business on the west coast performing miracles on all sorts of drives everyone else declared dead and they do it sub-$1000 price range regularly.
While what we do is often difficult, I have spent most of my career in the field trying to demystify this idea that you need to be some rocket scientist to get any of this done, and filming that all is an attempt to prove that. If this still exists for data recovery, perhaps we should do more data recovery videos to drive this point home. I do not think someone entirely inexperienced should be mucking around expecting great results, but at the same time, this isn't magic or wizardry requiring NSA level technicians and million dollar machinery. It's same as everything else, brains and ingenuity.
Just my 2 cents.
Great reply. I wasnt hating in my post like the repleis beneath me, i legit would just find it interesting to see you go head to head with this sort of outfit BECAUSE the way you run your shop. Brains and ingenuity. Heck yeah.
I cleaned my hard drive once. Just a quick shot of canned air.
One of my best friend's husband works there and was shown in the video. Thanks for the tour. Now I know what he's been describing all these years.
I wish drive savers would post a bunch of crazy stories of data that was saved. It would be fun to watch or read about some of those stories. the radioactive one for example.
2:28 2010 flashback
I used to work for a Data Recovery Company. Kroll OnTrack is probably the gold standard, followed closely by Drive Savers. We did smaller jobs with Erased Files, RAID Controller Problems, Actuators.. but DS has some really nice tools. Data Recovery is EXTREMELY expensive and not worth it to most people. Starts at $595 and goes up quickly to thousands
Wow! Possibly my fave Linus Tech Tips vid of all time!
Just Wow!
I just spent $2,000 getting my data recovered here about a week ago.
Ricsi Nyiro whatever caused him to need to recover his data for that much is sure.
two thousand fucking dollars? wtf... that data must be worth at least two HUNDRED thousand..
I had a client that paid over $23,000 to get a raid array back after a fire. Drive Savers got all the data back and I got a 10% referral fee!!!
I did a $3500 job, on raid 5 drives and that is nothing if you send it to big data recovery companies.
8:25 "Activate Windows" lol
Maybe the clean room was so expensive they couldn't afford a Windows license
no, it's actually the same reason why Linus doesn't use a licensed windows for his test bench
Who cares? Stop being a whiny lil bitch.
7:48 it is Paint, Linus, Paint is not top secret, Linus.
I wish these guys could recover the bitcoins I lost back in 2010 ._.
Patrick if lost on flash or mechanical drives they probably can.
Heck for the $200 it will cost to try, give it a go.
Sadly they can never recover the ones I sold
I thought I was pretty cool for making $1200 profit on a $200 investment
Turns out it would be worth 1.6mil now -.-
fml
DAI ANTON
Don't give away such valuable information!
Or Clinton's emails.
1:23 "we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two"
TL:DR; Make a back-up.
at least 3 to be safe.
TL;DW*
Linus, you were probably on a course of not dropping stuff. You didn't drop anything. Congratulations.
I think the difference between DriveSavers and Linus Tech Tips is that DriveSavers actually needs/uses all the hardware and costly equipment they own. Linus seems adept at cloaking the inefficiency of his business in a technological bureaucracy but somehow turns that to his advantage by making everything look way more sophisticated and serious than it actually is. It's kinda brilliant as a model, because all these tech companies know he has an audience and that they can make money off his viewership. So... the more bloated and needlessly complex his production process, the better his company does with sponsorships. Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant.
I tip my hat to you for turning a workflow that can be done on 6 workstations into something that requires a warehouse of property, a server closet and enough unused product to feed a small nation for a year.
Could they repair a hard drive Linus dropped ? I don't think so...
! Most favorite episode yet
Bro Linus made fun of that murderer guy he’s gonna show up at your front door man!
08:26 Million-dollar company, yet they are running unactivated windows
Literally me
Goededag
@@whosbram9217 hallo Bram. fijne dag?
lol unactivated window s is better
They don't need activated windows.
The sandal and socks combo :D
When it comes to tech, this company really takes the cake. Amazing what they can do.
those physical / logical signs cracked me up :D
Omg his voice 10:26 😂😂😂😂
from 👶 to a 👨 so fast
For goodness sakes
I never... Ever... thought I'd see a hard drive getting repaired.
I admire that. I've had to take a Luddite approach to data storage and only keep very specific things, copying only from a copy of a copy of a master.
I knew I'd see DeepSpar running there.
But can they get the password off my dead gramma's cortex so I can access the bitcoin she was mining?
Did she have a cat? The password is tiddles123
Mittens, it has to be Mittens.
She had several cats but she had a bad memory so she kept all their names saved.........on the computer.
diGritz1 it’s 69696969
You loaded foistwarez on your grandma's PC to mine Bitcoin since she always left the thing on and didn't know what a fast PC was her entire life. There is a pit in hades reserved for exploiters of family.
8:25 = all these years of minesweeper are gonna come in useful xD
6:59 oh, there's a dust on the screen
or is it just on mine ?
What is the 3-2-1 principle?
it means 3 backups of your data on 2 different backup media types where 1 is stored off site (other building, town, nation, ...) to prevent fire, floods, wars, ... depending on how important that data is.
basically if it's very important data, backup and store in multiple place. not just all in one place.
basically if it's very important data, backup and store in multiple place. not just all in one place.
WhyteLis21 would a back up a HDD and a SSD in the residence, plus a back up on a cloud based server cover these principles?
cloud is great too. but i wouldn't store sensitive files on cloud too much as it could get hack. then steal sensitive information.
One of my favorite videos made by you guys. It's fascinating.
Door 1
Linus 0
xD
And 90% of those failed or broken drives are probably seagate
I personally find Western Digital to be less reliable, but I stopped using both a while back and now go with HGST (even though WD did buy it, it's still amazing IMO). Or Tobshiba if it's something I care less about.
i guess my seagate is lucky its 5 yrs old and not a problem w it.
Yeah, that's lucky. I had an old 40G PATA Travelstar and its bearings screamed for days before it failed. Gave me plenty of time to back it up. HGST drives rock. Seagates were fine, back in the day. The 200M RLL in my old Satellite only hiccups once in a while. I have another PATA Travelstar made in 2004 that is still going strong. It has run for over a year solid without spin-downs, thanks to bug in facebook. My WD MyBooks half that age that never spin, I'm starting to grit my teeth about.
I once plugged in a toshiba drive. Asked me to format and it died right then and there lol welp. There goes my 2tb 2.5 inch drive
I have a 4tb wd elements that isn’t reading atm. Thinking to give them a call
Dear Linus, I want to personally thank you here for your contagious enthusiam and relevant education I have received from watching and listening to your videos. Bless you, my good man.
I love how they've got a 2 million dollar clean room, yet they've not activated windows.
I used their service to recover my thesis film project, my god, they're amazing at what they do! but be warned, it's is pretty hella expensive, depending on the extend of the damage. I had to dish out around 1200 dollars to recover my files.
what was your problem? I recently used a data recovery company but most of the video files they recovered are corrupted.
They say on their website that the average extraction is about $1500, so yeah, not cheap at ALL. But also not obscene or exploitative, given the effort and technology required. It may simply not be worth the effort for anything that can be replaced for less than ~$1500 worth of effort.
@@jasoncarswell7458 It actually is pretty exploitative at this point. The company sells services mostly based off name recognition now. The only stuff they do that's truly worth the price tag is recovery on extremely not standard equipment. They are very good at recovering data off of weird one of a kind tech and proprietary software. But their prices for consumer hardware recovery is like 8-10x that of their newer and less known, but equally capable (in the consumer space) competitors.
They've also been accused of quoting prices and then billing far higher prices before. The company is as much a PR firm as it is a data recovery company now. For example: the 2 million $ clean room thing is a marketing lie, it's not really accurate. They mean that the tech in there, if you went by its original prices/add a lot of labor costs at insane dollar amounts is 2 million. The tech in there is not largely worth 2 million. This video also talks about their 'security' which is mostly theatre meant to placate high net worth clients with the promise of discretion and security. The building itself isn't really any more secure than any other, and their 'color changing badges' are absolutely a marketing gimmick.
in all but the most high level situations, you're better googling your local data recovery company and calling them for a tenth of the price. Industry standard in consumer recovery is as low as 1$ a GB now, usually 100-200$ an hour for a well-trained and accredited expert. These guys have been quoted charging up to hundreds of dollars per GB of consumer recovered data, when that only makes sense on industry level hardware.
Another example is that their Yelp page is blatantly faked. They actually have two reviews from supposedly different people, BOTH with responses from people working at the company. We're talking carbon copied 5 paragraph reviews from different accounts. That's quite possibly the biggest red flag there is.
Do they also worked on aircraft black boxes?
a "little" too enthusiastic Linus?...
BecauseICanTBH Maybe. It just seemed a little "overplayed", that's all :)
Not really a complaint, just a observation :p
Its nothing more than a commercial for that company that he did. And ofc we eat it raw.
If it was to be informative in anyway he would have been recovering somthing from a drive i brought along. and not just boasted about how "great" they where.
Linus: like, what year is it?
**Looks at his watch**
This was a pretty cool episode. I honestly had no idea that there were data recovery companies out there that could do such extensive and impressive work.
8:18 looks like Minesweeper lol
Looks like the good old defrag :)
These guys are preforming technological miracles, but they can't activate Windows, lol.