Don’t worry, it was already effed (you can see the head crash), so we just took it out back and played Baseball with it.

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      Maybe a small amount, but remember, disks effectively RAID0 across all their platters. We’d be talking billions of €/£/$, for maybe what, a kB at most?;

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        That’s extremely unrealistic.

        In order for data recovery to cost billions and to only recover a few kB you would need to be looking at a HDD that was ground to course dust.

        Billions is a dedicated lab with hundreds of staff with the best dedicated equipment humanity can create.

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        billions?? I don’t think you have any idea of how data recovery works. Yes, it wouldn’t be cheap, but it would not even be in the millions. It likely wouldn’t even break into the hundreds of thousands. And you’d likely get much more than a kilobyte. It doesn’t matter that you had a head crash, the data is still on the platters. Sure, some will likely be corrupt, but I think you’re vastly underestimating modern data recovery services.