RapidSpar Data Recovery Instrument Review - Trickle Down Data Recovery

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Please consider supporting PC Perspective and technical content through our Patreon: http://patreon.com/pcper Subscribe for more hardware videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=pcper Full story link: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/RapidSpar-Data-Recovery-Instrument-Review-Trickle-Down-Data-Recovery Buy on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2affiO1 Buy from DeepSpar: http://portal.rapidspar.com/buy/ Being a bit of a storage nut, I have run into my share of failed and/or corrupted hard drives over the years. I have therefore used many different data recovery tools to try to get that data back when needed. Thankfully, I now employ a backup strategy that should minimize the need for such a tool, but there will always be instances of fresh data on a drive that went down before a recent backup took place or a neighbor or friend that did not have a backup. I’ve got a few data recovery pieces in the cooker, but this one will be focusing on ‘physical data recovery’ from drives with physically damaged or degraded sectors and/or heads. I’m not talking about so-called ‘logical data recovery’, where the drive is physically fine but has suffered some corruption that makes the data inaccessible by normal means, undelete programs also fall into this category. There are plenty of ‘hard drive recovery’ apps out there, and most if not all of them claim seemingly miraculous results on your physically failing hard drive. While there are absolutely success stories out there, most plastered all over testimonial pages at those respective sites, one must take those with an appropriate grain of salt. Someone who just got their data back with a $100 program is going to be very vocal about it, while those who had their drive permanently fail during the process are likely to go cry quietly in a corner while saving up for a clean-room capable service to get their stuff back. I'll focus more on the exact issues with using software tools for hardware problems later in this article, but for now, surely there has to be some way to attempt these first few steps of data recovery without resorting to software tools that can potentially cause more damage? Well now there is. Enter the RapidSpar, made by DeepSpar, who hope this little box can bridge the gap between dedicated data recovery operations and home users risking software-based hardware recoveries. DeepSpar is best known for making advanced tools used by big data recovery operations, so they know a thing or two about this stuff. I could go on and on here, but I’m going to save that for after the intro page. For now let’s get into what comes in the box.

Comments

  1. Rapidspar is local to me interesting
  2. I see it's sold at Target ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
  3. Looks pretty sleek for the cases where the bios/uefi doesn't recognize the disk and linux can't get to it either, as well as nice and easy foolproof way to go about it..

    ..but 2000$ is a little steep for something that dd/ddrescue can handle in 95% of the cases. Would've hoped for like 1/4th that price or less, especially if it's geared towards 'consumers'..
  4. Thanks for the review guys. I'm considering purchasing this thing.
  5. I'll be interested if it magically replaces heads.
  6. if only it was $210 for the hardware instead of $2100. i realize this is an industrial product but im sure everyone has a stack of failed drives they'd love to run through this thing. here's hoping they create a retail version.
  7. That would be really useful.
  8. Use that thing on Hillary's hard drive to recover those emails
  9. so your telling me its basically spin right but for 23 x more expensive, just so it can do backups as well as data recovery.
  10. I need to get this .. I have drives that crash my computer when I plug them in ... I could see this being a huge help for my business
  11. Great information on RapidSpar this could be very handy,. I wonder howit works with SSD's or the new Msata drives
  12. great software/hardware. I used "Undelete" to recover a few hard drives, partitions and has the tree-directory choice
  13. SAS drives? yay or nay?
  14. Does it work with SAS or the older 40 and 80 pin SCSI drives? I could imagine an IT department needing to recover data from something like a server that uses SAS drives so this device would be perfect for that.
  15. OMG $2,100.00 little thing
  16. Chris stop playing Team Fortress 2 and watch the show.
  17. I'll watch this until the new Fousey v Leafyishere video drops... lol
  18. Looks like a great product, hopefully they come up with an even more general consumer product.
  19. 0:13 - steam notification :D
  20. I like the idea of being able to recover SD cards, do they have any plans in the future to include a USB 2.0 adapter so you can recover data from flash drives?