A town that once built ships and later built computers for the world knows hardware has a lifespan — Greenock’s IBM years left the whole coast unusually clear-eyed about that. When a drive reaches the end of its own, the route east is forty minutes and the diagnosis is free.
From Greenock the A8 becomes the M8 and runs you into Charing Cross in about forty minutes. The Inverclyde line does the same journey from Greenock West and Central stations into Glasgow Central, no changes, drive on your lap. Or let the mail do the miles — insured and tracked, an Inverclyde parcel posted today is on the bench tomorrow morning.
The coast sends a distinctive mix: maritime and logistics records from the working waterfront, machines from the town’s electronics-heritage firms, family photo archives with a hundred years of shipyard faces in them, and the usual clicking externals. Every job gets the yard discipline — measured, imaged, fixed on the copy.
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.
Often, yes — a powered-off drive in two inches of padding experiences less stress in the mail than on a car’s parcel shelf down the A8. Either route is safe done properly; what damages drives is neither miles nor mail but power-ons. Keep it off, pack it well, choose freely.
With the phone, before anything is pulled or rebuilt: 0141 404 0294. You’ll get the safe shutdown-and-photograph routine in five minutes, then send every member disk — including any marked failed — in numbered bays or bags. Multi-disk work is quoted to the job from £500 + VAT.
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 Greenock. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.