it's concerning that you need to hide an expenditure like that from your wife (unless it's a gift for her, of course). you might consider investing that $2400 in marriage counseling instead! jmho 🤔
enter rod serling, from stage left. do do doo do ;-)
I have, and use, image rescue 5. I actually purchased it when my laptop card reader completely destroyed the images on a 32gb SanDisk SD card. or so I thought. I was thrilled with the results. ir5 even recovered some images that had never been read before! I have found it reasonably fast on my computer, and have used it with a couple different card brands. however, i do NOT use laptop readers anymore! ;-) best of luck and happy holidays.