Drive Savers is sort of the General Motors of hard drive recovery services. They've been around a long time and they have a good reputation (which may no longer be entirely deserved.)
I've toured Drive Saver's facility a couple of times. They have an impressive facility. And they apparently now feel that they need to charge customers through the nose to pay for it.
I'm not saying that Drive Saver's isn't good. They *are* good. If you are rich, and don't care about money, and don't mind not getting certain file types back (they make you agree to recovery of only certain file types in advance), and not having *any* applications recovered (yes, the bast___s won't recover any of your applications), then they are a good choice. I personally consider any service that meets that sort of description to be one that is ripping me off, because there are other services that will do a complete recovery, for less money. (I really, really hate paying more, for less.) But I fully admit that there are folks that don't care about that. Indeed, there are some folks who only purchase things based on the company's name recognition or their longevity, and Drive Savers is the clear choice for those individuals, because they used to be the go-to place for data recovery way back when.
$300 Drive Recovery has garnered such a good reputation, over a number of years now, from a ton of feedback, they seem like an even better, cheaper way to go.
It's interesting to note that Drive Savers' Yelp reviews aren't quite as good as $300 Drive Recovery's. Most folks were very happy, but read all of the one-star reviews:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/drivesavers-data-recovery-novato
Which isn't to say that Drive Savers isn't good, once again, they *are*. It just serves as an interesting counter-point for how incredibly good $300 Drive Recovery's reviews are. Apparently you *can* have an excellent drive recovery business, make all of your customers ridiculously happy, and not charge them usurious rates.