
R3 Data Recovery Reviews & Testimonials
R3 Data Recovery holds a 4.7/5 rating from 591+ 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.
These guys were really professional and straight forward. Highly recommend their service if you have old hard drives that you think have died and need resurrecting
The R3 Data Recovery team are outstanding in every way, going above and beyond in all areas. Communication was great, making time outside of working hours to explain the situation and their plans. They worked tirelessly to get a positive outcome and I would wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone who needs their help.
Quick & efficient service. A little pricy but well worth it!!
Fantastic service and could not be more pleased with the results. They managed to recover precious photos of my son from my phone which I thought were lost forever. Could not be happier!
Excellent Service all files recovered,couldn`t have asked for more.
Superb - saved my life. So organised, communicative, efficient, diligent. Within 24 hours of collecting my fire damaged hard disk, they had retrieved all my data. Sincerely, thank you!
After being told my hard drive was damaged beyond repair, I was recommended to use R3 data recovery. Nothing was too much trouble, always at the end of the phone and gave an amazing professional service. Highly recommend and a massive thank you to Andy Butler who went above and beyond at all times:)
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.
Excellent, rapid, efficient and affordable service
Relieved to have the data back and the iPad apparently working. Early communication could have been more efficient but generally was ok. Greater clarity of file type - I expected something that could feed into Word or into my IPad. I was unaware that I needed another app to access the data.
R3 data recovery were absolutely amazing when the hard drive failed on my 2012 iMac. I’d originally taken it to Apple who’d diagnosed the problem but couldn’t fix it and I was left in a blind panic with all of my photos and documents stuck on a computer I couldn’t access (and which I stupidly hadn’t backed up for years). Apple suggested a data recovery company that partnered with them to offer 10% off but when I got a quote, it was thousands! After some research, I found R3 and caught owner Andy on the phone on a Saturday morning. He quoted a few hundred pounds, which was far more reasonable and was an absolute delight to speak to, completely putting me at ease that there was hope of data recovery. Andy put me in touch with director Will who sent out the packaging the next week, and within a couple of weeks I received a hard drive back with my data on, which I was then able to download to a new computer. They were incredible helpful when I needed a little help over the phone to transfer the data and I cannot thank Andy, Will and the rest of the team enough for getting me back all of my treasured photos and important documents, it’s meant absolutely everything to me.
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.
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