Do you REALLY need a clean room for hard drive data recovery?

The Myth: You Need a 2 Million Dollar Clean Room for Data Recovery

Well known data recovery companies advertise their use of "ISO-certified clean rooms." They'll be wearing full body suits with goggles, as if they were working with smallpox or ebola. They're implying that this makes them better, or even worse; that you NEED this as PITS falsely implies below.

This isn't true; these clean rooms are marketing nonsense used to justify prices that are 5-10x those of reputable data recovery labs that don't screw people.

The Truth: You Need a Properly Filtered Workspace

Opening a hard drive in your living room is a bad idea; but it's ridiculous to imply that 2 million dollar cleanrooms make one lab more suited than another proper job. What matters is:

• Filtered air that removes ultrafine particles
• Consistent airflow that flushes contaminants
• An environment validated with precise instrumentation to have 0 particles.
• Engineers that know what they are doing!

At Rossmann Repair Group, we provide all 4!

A top of the line workspace costs less than a bigscreen TV

This is a Purair VLF-48 laminar flow bench. It costs less than an 83" OLED television.

The Purair VLF-48 is a professional-grade laminar flow hood made to protect hard drives from airborne particulates when we open them. It uses Ultra Low Penetration Air filters rated at 99.999% efficiency for particles between 0.1 to 0.3 microns. It creates vertical curtain of filtered air which constantly flushes contaminants away from our work area.

We've successfully recovered data from tens of thousands of hard drives, SSDs, microSD cards, and NAS units using this setup. Our clean bench, combined with experienced technicians and professional recovery tools, enables us to offer world-class results at honest prices.

How does the Purair VLF-48 work?

To verify the effectiveness of our setup, I bought a $5000 TSI P-Trak 8525; this is a professional ultrafine particle counter that can detect particles as small as 0.02 microns. For reference, that's smaller than the particles many "clean rooms" even measure. and yes, I realize the irony of spending $1500 more on the test tool than I did on the bench...

After less than 1 minute in this bench, the particle counter counted ZERO PARTICLES DOWN TO 0.02 MICRONS IN SIZE.

How small is that? What's a micron?

That is almost as small as my confidence & self image after Tiffany rejected my invitation to the 8th grade prom. The individual dust specs you see moving around your room when you look closely around a lightbulb are about 10-50 microns in size. A visible dust particle is about 500 times larger in diameter. Since volume increases with the cube of the radius, an individual dust particle is approximately 100 million times larger than a 0.02 micron particle - and this bench has ZERO of them!

When placed inside the Purair VLF-48 and powered on, the particle count dropped to 0 particles down to 0.02 microns in under 60 seconds.

What they say you're paying for

What you're ACTUALLY paying for

See these sponsored results at the top of Google? They get to the top by paying Google to be there. Guess how much they're paying?

Here's what they cost.

Incase that was difficult to read:

That's $150+ PER CLICK to get you to their website.

In business, landing pages can have anywhere from a 25%-65% conversion rate - this is the percentage of people who click that actually contact the business. In e-commerce, it's usually around 3% - 4-5% makes you a rockstar.

These companies are spending $500-$1000 just to get you in the door.

This radically affects the pricing they can offer. When it's a single diode, that has to cost $1000 just to cover their customer acquisition costs. An iPhone charge port isn't $3000 because it's made of gold; it's because they paid $2000 to get you in the door. If your drive has a bad cable, they do not have the luxury of providing you with a reasonable quote, because doing so would literally lose them money.

Don't Pay for Marketing. Pay for Results.

At Rossmann Repair Group, what we charge you is going into your recovery; not our advertising budget. We spend $0 on affiliate marketing, commissions, or any other form of advertising.