I paid a little over $1000 to get a drive "recovered" and all they ended up doing was swapping the logic board, something I could have done myself, and was in the procees of doing....i'd purchased an identical drive on ebay. But I ended up sending it to the specialists anyway coz the disk had a client's mission-critical data on it, and I didn't want the responsibility for making it a worse situation. Besides, if it wasn't the logic board I would be up the creek coz I don't have a clean room