Your complaint against TopTenReview suggests that the review process was biased:

... so you arranged your own "independent" review:

Might not TopTenReviews counter by arguing that engaging Russian acquaintances (?) to assess a Russian product could be seen to be lacking impartiality?

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

Actually, the tests were done and the report was written by Americans. BTW, R-Studio is a Canadian product.

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R-Studio Data Recovery Software

I'm pretty sure that the reviews for data recovery software is just a paid advertisement, just as is their review of labs

http://hard-drive-recovery-services-rev ... views.com/

I'm pretty sure that all the active users of this forum know better than to believe these reviews.

We recently had a project that was previously at one of the two "top" labs. The client paid $600 USD for a corrupted image file of his drive, with absolutely no recoverable data on it. They said the drive was encrypted and it took them about a month to do. We received the drive for a second opinion, changed the faulty PCB, mirrored the drive with no bad sectors and had 100% of the data recovered in about 2 hours of receiving the drive. Client was very happy to pay us our base rate of $350 CAD (about $270USD).

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

Whether or not it is a paid advertisement, the review is worthless. Top Ten Reviews are not willing to release their testing methodology, so their results cannot be independently reproduced and verified.

IMO the most trustworthy reviews are those where there is no suggestion of commercial bias. The reviewer must be completely at arm's length from the product and its developers. This means that there must be no communication between the two, and the reviewer would ideally obtain the product anonymously via normal retail channels. That's how the Australian Consumers Association goes about it. Also, since the product is targeted at end users who have no prior knowledge of data recovery, then something could be said for engaging reviewers who are not data recovery professionals. Moreover, these professionals could possibly be using one or more of the reviewed products, so there would be an unconscious preference for the more familiar product.

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

Tell that to a local programme here known for their lame attempts at passing off advertorials for suppliments as legitimate segments.

If they act like a judge, jury and executioner in their reviews, it's hard to put your trust onto such writeups unless if the reviewer is reputable enough for most people to vouch on.