ACE PC-3000 UDMA Review & Cost

ACE PC-3000 is the core data recovery hardware product offered by ACE
Laboratory which is located in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Let's see the
possibility of investing in PC3000 and start data recovery business.

What Data Recovery Tools ACE Offer?

Price Structure 1:

PC-3000 for Windows UDMA-2877 EUR-Hard Drives

Data Extractor UDMA-1680 EUR-Hard Drives
PC-3000 for SCSI-2900 EUR-SCSI Drives
Data Extractor SCSI-1387 EUR-SCSI Drives
PC-3000 Flash-1775 EUR-Flash Drives
PC-3000 Portable-1519 EUR-Flash Drives

Price Structure 2:
(Usually for North American Market)

PC-3000 for Windows (UDMA Version):  $9,870.00

Data Extractor UDMA: $3,650.00
PC-3000 for SCSI: $11,380.00
Data Extractor SCSI : $3,650.00
PC-3000 Flash: $4,850.00

PC3k UDMA is usually working with Data Extractor UDMA, so if you are
going to provide hard drive hdd repair and data recovery services,
you need to buy PC3k UDMA+DE UDMA which is not portable. If you want
to provide portable hdd repair services, you need to use PC-3000
Portable. If you want to provide for SCSI hard drive repair and data
recovery, you need to buy PC-3000 for SCSI and Data Extractor for
SCSI. If you want to provide Flash repair and data recovery services,
you need to buy PC3000 Flash, and it's now Flash SSD version.

ACE PC-3000 Software Upgrade and Technique Support Review

PC-3000 Flash Software Upgrade: $960.00

PC-3000 Software Upgrade License/year: $1,860.00
Premier technical support/month): $875.00

From PC-3000 for Windows PCI and PC-3000 for DOS ISA to PC-3000 UDMA
and DE UDMA, from PC3000 for SCSI to DE for SCSI, from PC-3000 flash
to the new Flash SSD version, as one of PC-3000 customers, I see the
development of ACE but it's very very hard for me to keep the PC-3000
running well with the continuing software upgrade and endless payment
for it, plus with the to-be-paid for good technique services. Besides
I found every two or three years ACE would release a new version of
tools to replace the old existing tools and customers need to pay
again and again for the new versions, this is ridiculous!

We can see the latest upgrade of PC3000 UDMA and DE UDMA, it was on
January 19th this year, and the last upgrade was on 15th of July
2010, it is over half a year to get some upgrades in this tool. Why
is it so slow there?  Does it mean there will be other new data
recovery tools from ACE which will replace the current PC3000 UDMA
and DE UDMA? Does it mean we need again to prepare the same money or
more for the new upgrade?

Possibility of Investing in PC-3000 to Start Data Recovery Business

For big data recovery companies with experienced data recovery

engineers, ACE-PC3000 is undoubtedly a good choice because you don't
need to worry about if you are able to read and understand the
technical documents, you don’t need to worry about spending 1 or 2
years to be familiar with the tools, you don't need to worry about
endless payment to keep the tools running and get support.

For Small data recovery companies or other common IT companies, I am

afraid you need to think very carefully before investing in the
tools:

1st:  The fund to pay-Thousands of dollars for tools, upgrade and

support and it's like to bring up your own child, I often have joke
with my friends, 'my child defeat me and tear up my pocket'!
2nd: Prepare yourself. ACE is more like one technology based company
and it writes scripts or manufacture tools mainly for advanced users
or engineers. You must firstly equip yourself with some experience
and knowledge in computer science, data security, etc; otherwise, you
will lose yourself there;
3rd: Data Recovery Resources. It's far away from enough to succeed in
this field by owning some data recovery tools, but you should have
good data recovery resources like a good firmware database, donor
heads archive, PCB suppliers or stock, tricks and tips collection
books, etc.
According to my experience, It's possible you can start to earn money
from the second year. but you must make sure you have a good
marketing plan for your data recovery services which will bring you
clients and reputation and you must make sure you have a high success
rate of hdd repair and data recovery. Anyway, I am in computer repair
and data recovery field for 15 years, you can think about it. I just
hope ACE is able to change their overbearing policies that get many
users to be driven crazy.