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 Post subject: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: May 11th, 2013, 15:15 
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Not a PC3000 question but this is the closest

Would like to get feedback if you used USB add-on.
Success rate with out using PC-3000

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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: May 13th, 2013, 18:37 
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I am not impressed with it!


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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: May 14th, 2013, 9:15 
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I use it every day.

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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: May 15th, 2013, 15:10 
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We use it occasionally, but wouldn't find it too helpful if we didn't also have a pc3k to fix firmware problems. Swapping to SATA always seems more reliable and faster when the drive has lots of bad sectors. But, if the drive is in pretty good shape, it's more convenient to clone "unencrypted" and skip the later step of decrypting the clone.

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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: May 17th, 2013, 8:57 
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I've found it works well with Toshiba and Samsung native USB drives with degraded media, but WDs are a different story.

Tool does work well for the correct applications.

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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: June 5th, 2013, 22:36 
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quasimodo wrote:
I am not impressed with it!



how come you dont like it ????

that add on somewhere between $2,400


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 Post subject: Re: Deepspar Add-on
PostPosted: June 6th, 2013, 10:50 
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craig6928 wrote:
quasimodo wrote:
I am not impressed with it!



how come you dont like it ????


Pretty much what bcometa said,

bcometa wrote:
We use it occasionally, but wouldn't find it too helpful if we didn't also have a pc3k to fix firmware problems. Swapping to SATA always seems more reliable and faster when the drive has lots of bad sectors. But, if the drive is in pretty good shape, it's more convenient to clone "unencrypted" and skip the later step of decrypting the clone.


It's really only useful if the drive has minor issues, and most drives we get in for recovery are way past minor issues. Most have been dropped, have platter damage, etc... After replacing heads reading via USB command set is just not something I think is a good idea (at least in the current implementations). And if you switch the USB add on to use ATA command set, now your dealing with the encrypted drive, in which case it's a lot better to just go sata and maintain as much control as possible over the drive.


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