Question Regarding Hardware Recovery Tools

[Mach8er4life]

Hi everyone i have very limited knowledge in this field of expertise and was wondering if everyone could lend me a helping hand.

I'm currently working at a company that assigned me to find a inhouse method for data recovery. I am clueless of these hardware solutions as i've only ever used software for data recovery. I've heard from people of a few of them but i was wondering if you guys could provide some Pro's and Con's or just a general breakdown of the features available from them and the cost.

I've heard of Atola Insight Forensic, DeepSpar Disk Imager, Ace Lab PC-3000 UDMA, Salvation Data Data Copy King. Any help would be appreciated!

[HaQue]

only hard disks or flash/ssd as well?

if flash, then you should also weigh up VNR (searchable for on this forum for info) Flash extractor, ACE Labs PC3000-ssd /pc3000 flash, and salvation data Flash Doctor(wouldn't recommend to an enemy).

[jerovsek]

don't buy Salvation Data Data Copy King. It's not worth any money
Better to buy Data Compas from SD.
But support for all their tools is bad and there is almost no R&D since 2012

Check for other tools.
Everything depends on your budget.
You will need:
HW tools for repair and recovery
SW tools for repair and recovery
lab equipement
knowledge&patience

[hhddrec]

The most important is knowledge. tools are very usefull but better knoledge.
I recomend you PC3k tools for HDD and FE fron SSD/Flash, i think they are the Best.

But you need too Clean roon cabinet, iron, optics and other tools

[HaQue]

If you want an in-house data recovery section/employee/division, no matter 1 person or 10, I would suggest advertising for an experienced DR person, and add to the spec they would need to be building the division from scratch. Your company probably would not be able to pick the right person, as you wouldn't know if you are getting bullcrapped to, or the person is excellent, so consider outsourcing the hire to either another DR company, or a personnel company that can give some type of guarantee.

Otherwise, the person doing the DR, if coming from inside the company, will probably not be able to take on anything else, and will be on a huge learning curve... or consider outsourcing the work. This is quite a large undertaking in my view. I can say there will probably be people around that could fit this, I am certain.. the challenge will be to find that person, and not take a year to be worth it for the company.

good luck, will be interested to hear how it goes and any challenges if you are able to share anything.