DeepSpar USB Add-On Now Available

[lcoughey]

http://www.deepspar.com/blog/Imaging-USB-Drives.html

[mr_spokk]

Good news, and a good written article

[pclab]

Only for DDI 4???
Damn....

[loki]

Only for DDI 4???
Damn....

+1

At least there is still the sata pcb or hack

loki

[einstein9]

Looks Cute really hehehe http://www.deepspar.com/usb-ds-disk-imager.html

really if they do not mention it, and i see it here on the market, i would say: Normal PCI-E USB3 interface heheh

waiting for the shoot n kill price

[Nick_CT]

waiting for the shoot n kill price

To my knowledge it will be $1,850. Looking forward to getting my hands on one.

[lcoughey]

It definitely isn't a simple PCIe USB 3 card and is a custom build by DeepSpar. It is very cool to be able to enter known user passwords, create head maps, do head/media tests, skip read errors and mirror at the same speeds as SATA drives. Obviously, USB 2 doesn't hit the same speeds as USB 3.

[pcimage]

It definitely isn't a simple PCIe USB 3 card and is a custom build by DeepSpar. It is very cool to be able to enter known user passwords, create head maps, do head/media tests, skip read errors and mirror at the same speeds as SATA drives. Obviously, USB 2 doesn't hit the same speeds as USB 3.

We too have been testing this on Beta, and although I have not had as much time as I would like to test it properly, so far it has performed as well if not better than I expected.

Yes, it's expensive but it's not just a straightforward "adaptor" but like Luke says it is a custom-built PCIe board that integrates with the DDI4.

Depending on your labs throughout of USB drives would depend if it's worth it to you, but to us it's worth every penny and should pay for itself quickly with lost time mucking about with SATA boards and so forth.

Another plus I expect it to have is that with integration with DRE and decryption "on the fly" it should give a much better idea of which files are damaged, rather than the usual SATA conversion and subsequent decryption.

[lcoughey]

One other feature that I'd be remiss in not mentioning is that with this add-on, one can use DRE to image by file, saving a lot of time and wear on the drive. The traditional way of swapping to a SATA interface requires a full drive mirror of the encrypted data before the file system can be accessed.

[pcimage]

One other feature that I'd be remiss in not mentioning is that with this add-on, one can use DRE to image by file, saving a lot of time and wear on the drive. The traditional way of swapping to a SATA interface requires a full drive mirror of the encrypted data before the file system can be accessed.

[freakzy]

One other feature that I'd be remiss in not mentioning is that with this add-on, one can use DRE to image by file, saving a lot of time and wear on the drive. The traditional way of swapping to a SATA interface requires a full drive mirror of the encrypted data before the file system can be accessed.

This feature somehow makes $1,850 for the USB add-on very reasonable......

[lcoughey]

As a follow-up to this project, I am just finishing up a project where this add-on saved the data.

After a head change, none of my PC3000 systems seemed to want to talk to the 1TB USB 3 drive, so I could not mirror with DE, even if I wanted to. DDRescue was reading at about 3KB/second.

With DDI, I was able to do a head map. The drive was still reading very slowly, but via DRE, I was able to get the 400MB catalog read after two full days of working on it. I then sent a full file list to the client via DeepSpar Operations server where they were able to check off about 300GB of the 880GB of data on the drive that they wanted targeted as first priority. Once this was done, I simply loaded the client selection in DRE and told it to mirror selected files (sector-by-sector, not file-by-file). The mirroring process started slowly, but after a couple of days, it went from a max of 800KB/second to a rang of 8,000KB/second to 40,000KB/second. After mirroring the 300GB of selected data, I then want back and selected the remainder of the data to be mirrored.

I've used DeepSpar's file verification report and confirmed that all of the user selected data is 100% clean, as is all the other user data mirrored, thus far. Right now, I'm just cleaning up by recovering a system backup directory and suspect that it should be fully recovered as well.

I'm very pleased with this add-on, as I was expecting that the full recovery was going to take months and I've managed to complete it within days.

Many thanks to the DeepSpar team.

[CK]

+1 as a Beta tester, I definitely recommend it.

Big thanks to Andrei for his continued hard work and development of the Deepspar tools.

[freakzy]

As a follow-up to this project, I am just finishing up a project where this add-on saved the data.

After a head change, none of my PC3000 systems seemed to want to talk to the 1TB USB 3 drive, so I could not mirror with DE, even if I wanted to. DDRescue was reading at about 3KB/second.

With DDI, I was able to do a head map. The drive was still reading very slowly, but via DRE, I was able to get the 400MB catalog read after two full days of working on it. I then sent a full file list to the client via DeepSpar Operations server where they were able to check off about 300GB of the 880GB of data on the drive that they wanted targeted as first priority. Once this was done, I simply loaded the client selection in DRE and told it to mirror selected files (sector-by-sector, not file-by-file). The mirroring process started slowly, but after a couple of days, it went from a max of 800KB/second to a rang of 8,000KB/second to 40,000KB/second. After mirroring the 300GB of selected data, I then want back and selected the remainder of the data to be mirrored.

I've used DeepSpar's file verification report and confirmed that all of the user selected data is 100% clean, as is all the other user data mirrored, thus far. Right now, I'm just cleaning up by recovering a system backup directory and suspect that it should be fully recovered as well.

I'm very pleased with this add-on, as I was expecting that the full recovery was going to take months and I've managed to complete it within days.

Many thanks to the DeepSpar team.

+1

Thank you very much for this testimonial, Luke. I will surely ask my company to buy this add-on A.S.A.P

[Russwinters]

+1 from me as well. I was beta testing this and it performs.

The DRE is really useful, anyone who has a DDI should make sure to update and get DRE running (it basically gives DDI the ability to do what DE does, like the "map marked files" feature.