This really is a friend of mine and I already warned him that it was going to be expensive. I note that ontrack.com lets you fill in parameters and then some goober will call you with a quote. For my purposes, that'll be good enough and I can let my buddy make the call on whether he wants to part with that much cash.

Man, the prices have really gone up! It was years ago that I sent a drive off somewhere in California for a client (a tiny one by today's standards - 700Meg). Back then it cost me a couple hundred bucks and we got back around 70% of the data.