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 Post subject: Atola or PC3000?
PostPosted: September 13th, 2013, 0:51 
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Location: Nebraska, USA
I own a data recovery company in Nebraska and I have novice knowledge of the technical side of data recovery. I can swap heads, follow scripted commands to work with firmware, etc...

I lost my senior data recovery technician recently and I have stepped in to learn the basics and get a new engineer started before we send him off for more advanced training.

We currently have a ddi4 which is amazing. We also have a wide assortment of Salvation Data products which I am currently frustrated with. I know the PC3000 is highly recommended but I also noticed that the marketing materials for the Atola Insight make it sound like a fire and forget firmware fixing machine.

I am curious to know what you guys think of the Atila Insight vs the PC3000. Having a great shell to automate come of the firmware commands would be extremely helpful for me in the short run, but I don't want to hobble us with an expensive automated solution if it will imit what we can do later with more training.

Any thoughts?


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 Post subject: Re: Atola or PC3000?
PostPosted: September 13th, 2013, 1:37 
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Automatic firmware recovery in Atola Insight only supports a limited set of drives. From http://atola.com/products/insight/supported-drives.html :
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Automatic firmware recovery works for the following models:
All Toshiba hard drives
Most Fujitsu hard drives
"Pre-Marvell" Western Digital drives (based on a WD CPU)


We have stopped focusing on firmware issues when they became a rarity.

By no means I want to stop you from buying Atola Insight, however, if your focus is strictly firmware then PC-3000 will be a better choice for now.

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