I've got 2 HDDs sitting in the bottom of my freezer (notorious, Seagate 7200.9s) waiting to be recovered. If you have that contact please send it to me. I'm only finding 1500-2000euro quotes.
Many hard drive failures are caused by its PCB and can be easily solved just by replacing it with a new one.
Finding a Matching Hard Drive PCB: http://www.hddzone.com/conditions.html
I assume you already knew this, as you keep them on your freezer... and that this may not be applicable to your case, but this could be useful for other people anyway.
I'll give it a shot. In this series Seagate changed the platter coating. So after around 3 years the coating starts to flake off and get jammed between the head and surface.
It is pointless to swap a PCB on Seagate drives these days. Most likely it will not help. The odds are 1:50 that a compatible PCB will be a good match. There is a procedure that is a procedure to perform the proper swap and that requires tools, recovery equipment and knowledge of PCB architecture. On certain drives (some Seagate models ver IV or V) you should never swap a PCB. If you do, the drive will be toast. Same applies to some Hitachi / IBM drives. If data is critical - do not experiment.
...and before you pick a company, do your homework. There is a number of fly-by-nighters who have no clue what data recovery is. Cute and fancy website is an easy catch these days. Don't fall for its appeal, talk to the techs, see how well the conversation goes. Don't settle for the cheapest quote. A good engineer pays higher bills for his "better" equipment, so if data is important, make sure it's done right by the reputable data recovery engineer. Remember, sometimes there is only one attempt and it has to be done right.
Best of luck!
It has the iPhoto library from the months before and a few years after my son was born. All I have from that period is whatever I emailed to friends, family, and Facebook. Music was restored from my iPod, movies were on DVD/Bluray, so only the leaving 60GB of photos.
Where are you located? Let me know and I'll suggest a company.
First thing to do is to pull the drives out of the freezer and never ever do that again. Put them into a bowl of rice for 10 hours or so in order to get rid of that humidity quickly.
Why doing that in a first place? What are you trying to achieve? This procedure was applicable only to one model of Fujitsu MPG drives that were selling 10 years ago. Pull the drives out.
Seagates have a number of issues. Let me know what the symptoms are and I will let you know what you might be looking at $-wise.
Sorry I checked through my emails, no way to get it.
1500-2000 sounds very expensive though. Maybe 400 euros is not possible today, I had the quotation 2 or 3 years ago.