In the majority of legal cases, the examiner can recover and analyze the computer's evidence and generate forensic tool reports for the legal team’s review for an average cost of approximately $5,000. Each computer hard drive takes about 12 hours of lab time. Factors that go to cost include how much storage capacity is built into each of the computer's hard drives. And how many hours of analysis are needed. Last, a critical factor is how many computer forensic tools are required to recover and analyze the material evidence upon which the dispute will turn, especially deleted or hidden evidence, also specialty evidence like documents and media.