The Romans built a wall through Bearsden; residents since have mostly built photo libraries and practice records. When the drive holding either goes quiet, the journey to a straight answer is twenty minutes — shorter than the school run, and considerably calmer.
Bearsden to Bath Street is a simple run — down through Maryhill or via the A739 Switchback, twenty minutes on a fair day — and the Milngavie line puts Bearsden and Hillfoot stations a direct ride from Queen Street. The post-in route suits the diary-driven perfectly: insured, tracked, powered off, padded, next morning on the bench.
Bearsden’s drives skew personal and professional in the same household: the MacBooks and iMacs of home-working professionals, practice and consultancy records, and decades of family photography that migrated from albums to a single external nobody duplicated. Discreet handling is standard; so is the free diagnosis before any figure is discussed.
Whatever arrives, the terms don’t move with the postcode: a free diagnostic first, a fixed figure in writing before any work — £250 + VAT for cards and sticks, £300 + VAT for any single drive, from £500 + VAT for RAID, NAS and servers — and on most jobs, no recovery means no fee. Every job is handled in-house by our own engineers and your data never leaves the UK.
Yes — spinning-drive iMacs, MacBook drives and Fusion machines each get their own method at flat prices. The honest exception: soldered-storage Macs (the T2 and Apple Silicon era) aren’t work we take on, and the free assessment says so straight away. Stop the restart attempts; they cost a failing drive plenty.
As the default, not an extra: work happens in-house by our own engineers, nothing is outsourced, media is stored securely, and your data never leaves the UK. If your professional obligations need an NDA on file, say so at drop-off — it’s signed without ceremony.
Power it down, pad it well, and choose your route — the counter at Tay House, 300 Bath Street (Mon–Fri 9am–5:30pm) or insured, tracked post from Bearsden. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.