O is for Ouch

Thankfully, DriveSavers was able to recover my photo files from my damaged hard drive – all 6,000 of them. Wow, I had no idea I had so many! I did the math and the cost of data recovery actually adds up to only $0.14 per photo. Doesn’t seem like much until I really start to do the math:

• $50 – Run diagnostics at Mac Store
• $140 – Purchase external hard drive
• $865 – Data recovery at DriveSavers
• $109 – Purchase new hard drive
• $50 – Install new hard drive

All said and done, I am out $1,214 – OUCH. For that amount, I could have bought myself a brand new computer! Ah... C'est la vie.