
R3 Data Recovery Reviews & Testimonials
R3 Data Recovery holds a 4.7/5 rating from 592+ 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.
This is the second time I have used R3 Data Recovery in 10 years. Both times full fast recovery and was kept well informed during all stages of the process. This time is was after the failure of a 1TB internal hard disk. Collection and return of disk/recovery media fast and reliable. Although I hope not to have to use their services again I wouldn't hesitate if necessary.
Excellent service and everyone was very helpful and friendly. Cost was comparable to other companies and I considered it good value for money.
Fortunately, they were able to do a geat job for me for me after a hardware failure inside a WD 2 terabyte external drive. The vast majority of files were recovered. The interaction with them was very good, they made no promises that they couldn't keep and were very swift in response. The cost of the work i found quite reasonable ( first and hopefully only time user!) - but then again it really depends on what value you put on your own threatened data (backed-up personal photos & work files).
Excellent service and fast return of precious family photographs that could have been lost forever. We are very grateful. Thank you.
Worked hard in recovering my important date
Recovered most of data very helpful explained process when we visited had a very interesting tour and an insight into a different world nothing was too much trouble and would use again and recommend very honest company
Saved my life! Thank you so much 😁
So after 20+ years of chancing my luck with no data backup my laptop one day wouldn't turn on. Slightly worried I bought another laptop and fitted the drive to transfer the data. But oh no that was dead. After looking around and reading reviews I messaged R3 late one Saturday night. 5 mins later I had a reply! Very professional and had all.my data recovered in the quoted time. I can't praise them highly enough. Of course I now have a nas drive and second backup of all my data.
Really helpful, clear pricing and great turnaround speed. Thank you to Andy and the team
My heart sank when my old 2GB flash drive 'died', knowing there was a lot of important and historical data on there. Advice from a family friend led me to R3 and I'm so glad I entrusted the recovery with them. The majority has been recovered with several corrupt files but I have the main ones I was hoping for! The service has been exceptional - extremely prompt response to my initial inquiry, excellent communication and customer service throughout, and organised collection and return of the drive. I shall learn by my mistake and make regular backups but I shall certainly know where to go if needed again! I can't thank the whole team enough.
Absolutely brilliant and bona fide company that does what is says in its company title. How important is your lost data to you??? Well if it means as much as it does to me and you are stupid enough to not have those back ups in place, then do not complain about the costs to recover them. Relatively speaking, was quite cheap considering there was 25 years worth of data recovered. I used my credit card on this failure on my part, but don't regret a single pound spent. Will and his team recovered the data from an old Linux system drive and put it onto a brand new one terabyte external hard drive for me ready to run under Windows. To all persons who need a reputable company and are trawling through various Google searches, this is the real deal and actually do their recovery on site. Hopefully you will never need to be in this situation, but if you do give them a call. Great interaction and regular updates throughout the process. Many thanks to all at R3 Data Recovery. John C.
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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