Data recovery 2025/2026 business

[Martin I]

Hi 

I wonder if it is worth starting a data recovery shop today. ?

I have noticed that there are a lot of people who have opened 

up as data recovery shops here in Sweden where I live. 
For 6 years ago there weren't many at all.

Is it worth this in today's 2025/2026. 

Or what would you recommend?

BR

Martin

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I notice that many people are getting out of the business. The cost of tools is increasing dramatically, and the technology is being locked down by the storage manufacturers.

On the "upside", AI is pushing up the cost of storage devices. This means that people will retain older hardware for longer and will be less likely to purchase backup storage. That means more work for you guys.

[RecuperoDati299]

If you read one of my earlier posts

you understand it isn't a good idea

the unique type of recovery that makes "sense" is from HDDs

but the misleading informations and the market are pushing for SSDs which is a demented project (really silly if conceived for data archives / storage)

So for one reason or for another the consumer market which has always been the source for the data recovery business (usually, except some few exceptions , business customers do have backups , and the few which doesn't have one are not a significant amount for a DR business)

is "expiring" because pushed to pass to SSDs

This should tell you all

Nevertheless for the ROI on the devices and licenses and learning curve you must work several cases per month

this mean additional expenses on ADS and website SEO

which turns in even more cases needed per month to get a sufficient earn

Better to act as reseller for some months. You find an agreement and meanwhile you study the typical customers and so on

and you'll get your personal opinion especially when you'll discover that as final stone (huge one) on the topic...

.. not all the cases can be recovered.

Regards

Robert

CTO @ https://www.RecuperoDati299euro.it 

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Lots of computer stores were always ‘wowed’ by the perceived revenues from data recovery. That combined with MRT offering a ‘pay by month’ option for their product meant a lot of companies found it very inexpensive to move into the data recovery market. However, owning MRT and using the hardware/software for data recovery are two different things. So it’s no surprise you saw a lot of companies move into the data recovery market, but that is not what is really happening from a revenue standpoint.

 

The complexity of modern HDDs make data recovery almost impossible for the ‘novice’. Without a deep understanding of HDD architecture and firmware there is just too much to learn to make it economically viable business. And as Robert mentioned there is very little commercial support for SSDs and it makes the vast majority of SSD unrecoverable.

 

My advice. Stay away from data recovery and concentrate your efforts on a more lucrative endeavor.

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[Claude Barras]

My advice...no DR but JAMF.  if you like Apple, take JAMF certification, it's pretty easy to reach level 4.  JAMF always search for engineers to implement their solution in Europe and after some experience you can get a well paid job to manage the Company Apple fleet. There's more and more Apple Macbooks in Corporation and not many people know MDM.  Most of sysadmin were Windows guy and they don't like Apple.

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Having all the tools in the world is one thing but having donor drive for HDD rebuilt and recovery is a completely different business, it took me almost 10 years to gather enough donor drives to be able to rebuilt almost 95% of all drives that I receive on the same day, if you don’t have then most client just cant wait for you to start sourcing drives at a huge cost. Then not to mention the financial costs for having hundreds or close to a thousand donor drives in hand.

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[Martin I]

It is appreciated that you are honest and thanks for your advice. 

I have got the feeling that HDD is a dead market there and that more and more SSD and nvme are entering the market. 

My question is how profitable is the SSD and nvme market when everything is moving in this direction? 

How many SSD and nvme do you have to repair per month for it to be profitable?

Flash recovery is also a dead market when everything is moving towards encryption and chip off is not profitable anymore. 

Then I am a little skeptical that the PC-3000 business model that has made it so that it has not become profitable to run DR. 

I think they will lose some customers soon. I have nothing against ACELAB and they are good. 

There are not many who can challenge them, I don't think they have listened to their customers and take care of them. 

That is why I think there will be a crash there.

What about smartphone or macbook repair as a business or is it also a dead market?

Thank you for advice Claude Barras for JAMF.
Thank you all guys.  

Regards
Martin

[RecuperoDati299]

Hello my impression is that you haven't read carefully my previous email about SSDs

Re read carefully my previous email

If HDDs we incoming massively and almost 90% of them were/are recovered (and if Toshiba had never decided to start producing hard disks, the percentage would rise to over 95%) , SSDs are much less in amount and the percentage of recovered cases is flipped upsidedown because 99% of the cases are arriving already disrupted at memory cells wear level , especially for those storing the traslator module

a pure shit

unfortunately, IT professionals around the world are not at all informed about the total unreliability of SSDs and, on the contrary, in their ignorance they are there advising their clients to replace the reliable (but above all 'predictable') hard disk with an SSD.

On the other hand, laptop/notebook manufacturers with the ultra-economical SSD that certainly results in a much lower percentage of mechanical shock accidents, have completely removed HDDs since 2016/2018 and only "push" SSDs.

The SSD, apart from memory cell degradation - a genetic problem of FLASH memory chips - has the EXTREMELY SERIOUS vulnerability of being an electronic board.

So when an SSD arrives burnt out because of ANY kind of electrical shock and the FLASH memory chip is burnt out, you obviously recover nothing, and some arrive with the chip burnt out without any electrical accident.

Insane is the SSD project and insane is whoever recommends the SSD as "more reliable" memory than an HDD.

This nasty combination of numbers + shitty percentage of recovered cases (10% to 15%) + the much longer time required for reading (compared to HDDs) those (few) SSDs that successfully resume + some other technical limitations should make it clear that SSD recovery is absolutely not a data recovery channel that would allow the sustainability of a DR lab.

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My impression from the user forums is that the general recommendation is to use an SSD for the OS, and a HDD for storage. If this rule is followed, then an SSD failure would be relatively harmless. In any case, if people keep good backups, then it doesn't matter what they choose. Moreover, if they are choosing a storage device based on its "data recoverability", then they would be acutely aware of the importance of backups, which then makes the question of recoverability moot.