Guzik

[narro]

Does anyone have one of these ?

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-12-2009/0005076750&EDATE


http://www.guzik.com/product_detail_DTR3000.asp

Can it really recover data from major hard drives manufactures ?

[CK]

Theoretically, yes. But for practical, commercial applications - NO.

I've seen one in a lab but have not yet seen real life results.

To put it simply, you can read the low level data, but trying reconstruct it into meaningful data is the problem.

[lcoughey]

What is the difference between this and "Signal Trace" that ActionFront promoted? I'd be needing to see a lot more unrecoverable projects before I'd spend more than $500,000 on this unit.

[Doomer]

What is the difference between this and "Signal Trace" that ActionFront promoted?

The difference is the Signal Trace is able to recover real data from some drives

[-BR-]

What is the difference between this and "Signal Trace" that ActionFront promoted? I'd be needing to see a lot more unrecoverable projects before I'd spend more than $500,000 on this unit.

The difference is that Guzik's seems to be a real hardware tool, while Actionfront's was fakeware (*)
(*) also known as vaporware, marketing promotional tool, or in simpler words ... just a big lie

-BR-

[HDD Spaz]

I'd like to see some proof.

Actionfront woudn't be the first to create a fictional tool to get extra good press. I'm sure IBAS claimed to have such a device too. Don't forget Data Clinic with their EMAK, (then they started to sell Salvation Data products???) and Retro Data with their 20 ton P.E.T.S (Platter swap tool)

[Doomer]

the SignalTrace is real thing
I saw it myself and I saw it recovers data

There is no magic just pure science and lots of work

[lcoughey]

I'm curious to know the value of the data on the drives that would make systems like Guzik and Signal Trace a viable option.

[HDD Spaz]

was it just one model of western digital or several?

[Doomer]

was it just one model of western digital or several?

several WDs

[guru]

probably all from the Enterprise range :O) . Signal Trace was good and they made their money back selling it to US gov.. Also Nick made money in the end by selling AF to Seagate./

I personaly think money was made off the back and brains of Russian nationals.

AF was miles behind in 2001/2002 Sadly some really clever guys ended up in the US

The best man-brain for reverse HDD firmware luckily still lives in Moscow so I don't care much and he is the real GURU

[Doomer]

guru, what guy are you talking about?