
R3 Data Recovery Reviews & Testimonials
R3 Data Recovery holds a 4.7/5 rating from 590+ verified reviews, with customers highlighting our ability to recover data from hard drives, SSDs, RAID systems, and mobile devices - even when other labs fail.
Real experiences from data recovery customers across the UK
Data recovery isn't just technical — it's personal. Whether it's a business facing downtime or a family fearing the loss of precious memories, the impact is real.
This hub brings together verified experiences from people across the UK, highlighting how R3 engineers diagnose failures, recover lost data, and support customers through one of the most stressful situations they can face.
What these reviews represent
- Devices
- Hard drives, SSDs, RAID arrays, mobile phones, USB drives, servers
- Failure Types
- Mechanical and logical failures, accidental deletion, RAID degradation, physical drop damage, ransomware encrypted, fire/flood damage
- Services Reviewed
- Standard recovery, emergency recovery, RAID rebuilds, mobile device recovery, ransomware encrypted recovery
- Provider Reviewed
- R3 Data Recovery Ltd (Security House Lab, Sheffield)
What customers experienced with R3?
Every review below comes from a real customer who trusted R3 with their data. These stories reflect real challenges, real recoveries, and the work our engineers do every day.
R3 data recovery was recommended to me after I had a major problem with data lost on a discarded hard drive. I had not backed up any of my data. R3 recovered data I needed and could not possibly have recovered without them.
Great Reliable Service! Recovered 95% of my data in a Lab Recovery. I was very pleased with the communication and overall experience.
Spoke to Andy on Friday afternoon after all the files on my hdd were not accessible, he calmed me down and I dropped the disc in around tea time, Paul took a look and told me how the disc had failed and confirmed it should be possible to recover most if not all the data, and they would drop straight onto it. I received a list of recoverable files on Monday, paid the invoice which was actually slightly less than I was expecting and Tuesday lunchtime was able to collect the recovered data on a new hdd. Great service, reasonable costs and all my data was saved. Definitely recommend R3.
The service provided was very good
A competent company with passionate experts who bend backwards to help people. I had a terrible experience with Fields Data Recovery who were misleading, negligent and took a substantial amount of money from me (that I'm still trying to get back) despite knowing that my MacBook hard drive was unsalvageable. I got a second opinion and came across Andy from R3 Data Recovery who were enlightened me on how many people Fields Data Recovery to this to. They take your money and make no effort to do any work or make any contact with you. Andy at R3 Data Recovery conducted a review of Fields R&D Technical report issued by Fields Head of R&D and the communications with Fields Data Recovery Head of European Sales. Andy has confirmed with me that there has either been a very serious mistake in the ISO 9001 / 27001 processing of your case by Fields Associates or a deliberate and designed deception to take money under false pretence. Again, this has happened to a lot of people. Andy is assisting with the refund and has been in communication with the Directors of Fields Associates and the local MP for Bridgend Dr Jamie Wallis who is the owner of Fields and one of the past experts in Fields Data Recovery still showing on the website. Disclaimer: I have not been asked to leave this review. R3 Data Recovery have been so helpful in trying to me after this ordeal. I would really recommend them.
One of the most expert professional, efficient, trustworthy and caring businesses I have ever experienced. Andy is calm and reassuring to help one deal with the panic of data loss. The successful and quick data recovery performed on my broken USB stick was a miraculous result!
Excellent service! Excellent professionals!
My hard drive full of every family photo for the last 20 years died. It also contained every document I had saved in that time. A hard drive full of very sentimental files such as photos of my children being born. Devastated at the prospect of losing all of this data, I set about finding a recovery service. So many providers had patchy reviews and didn't look legit until I came across R3. The service was very smooth and 99.9% of my data was recovered. Just 12 files could not be recovered out of 77,000!
Efficient and almost 100% od data recovered .
Fantastic service, kept well informed throughout the process. All questions answered promptly. Sending Hard Drive easy, clear arrangements, likewise on return following data recovery. Many thanks to Andy, Will and Nick. R3 Data Recovery are the real deal in a sector where sadly too many scammers operate.
Great communication and swift service. Successfully recovered important mobile phone data for me. Thanks!
Super recovery of very important data from a very old memory stick. Superb communications and very simple effective work Greatly appreciated - life saving in fact
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