New town on an old harbour, Irvine keeps its data the way it keeps everything — practically, and mostly on hardware bought to last. When a drive doesn’t, the coast-to-city run is forty minutes, and the first answer is free.
From Irvine the A78 and A71 feed the M77 north, and Charing Cross arrives in about forty minutes. Trains run from Irvine station direct to Glasgow Central along the Ayrshire coast line. Or skip the travel entirely: the insured, tracked parcel is Ayrshire’s most popular route to the bench, and it earns that quietly every week.
Irvine’s mix carries both eras of the town: business machines from the enterprise-area units, harbourside and Beach Park photography on cards, home-office laptops, and the NAS boxes small firms adopted as their “server”. Whatever the vintage, the discipline holds — imaged once, all repairs on the copy, nothing gambled.
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.
Perfectly, treated like the fragile parcel it is: powered off, wrapped against knocks, carried rather than crushed under a bag. The train’s vibration is trivial next to a single hopeful power-on. Or seal the same packaging and post it — identical outcome, zero platform time.
Use whoever earns it — but check what “closer” actually offers: many local options run software over sick drives or forward the hard cases elsewhere. Here the work is done in-house, start to finish, with a free diagnosis and a written fixed price. Distance is one post box; method is everything.
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 Irvine. Either way it’s diagnosed free and quoted in writing before anything is decided.