I'm starting out and assessing as to which affordable data recovery solution I should purchase. Am in touch with DFL (Dolphin), after initial hardware/software cost, need to pay $200 for 200 hours of software use
Initial price for PCIe-4x recharge version is USD1369, https://www.dolphindatalab.com/product/ ... e-version/
Price for All in one adaptor is USD369, https://www.dolphindatalab.com/product/ ... pter-plus/ I believe the site says it supports max 2.2 tb capacity
Was wondering if MRT is a better option and better tools?
or Deepspar USB Stabilizer? Need something affordable
Also what is WDMarvel meant to do and in what scenarios used? I was trying to find a manual for it

MRT and Dolphin are lacking compared to Ace Lab's product. They are surely cheap (pay entry fee + something) compared to a PC3000 UDMA (pay once get it all). Get used PC3000 device usually in the market section, https://forum.hddguru.com/viewforum.php?f=15 , of the forum there are some offers.

Deepspar USB stabilizer is a great tool, but if it's to handle bad block, or formatted drive. It won't repair anything.

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You could watch https://youtu.be/fuO3t89lQno and decide what it is you want or need. Do you need/want firmware repair? Do you just want to able to clone unstable drives? IMO your goal you should drive your decisions (and of course your wallet will be a factor too), you start there, not with the tool.

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I could be wrong, but I don't think that WDMarvel can handle the more recent drives such as those with "locked" PCBs.

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Thank you all so much for your responses. They are all helpful and I am in midst of watching this as was referred above
https://youtu.be/fuO3t89lQno

A lot depends on your goals in data recovery. But if you still want to get into this business seriously and for a long time, it's better to consider solutions that are close to all-in-one. I mean solving various complexity and dealing with the majority of devices. Now already, there are more and more complex cases on the market and much less easy ones. And in future I guess this tendency will only grow. In this reality the techno mode is the key point to cover serious DR cases and it’s best of all realized in PC3K.
I doubt that cheaper tools like DFL or Deepspar will be able to recover WD SMR after formatting, for ex. On SMR drives, formatting triggers TRIM, so even for such tasks you need to access the firmware HDD, without which you can't recover anything. The best way is to buy PC3K UDMA from someone in the market or directly. Otherwise you can be stuck at many cases right at the beginning. IMHO…

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Thank you for that response, pclab

I have bought guadronix and it has helped me in several cases now I am about to end up buying additional MRT or DFL equipment

i have a 1tb seagate barracuda HDD (ST1000DM010). It stopped working when i connected it to my power source and it did not appear in bios or in the windows OS, to solve this i bought an identical HDD with the same type of pcb but now it only says "offline" and does not allow to initalize it, in programs such as minitool, partition wizzard, etc. it only says unllocated or bad dis, the important thing here is that i want to recover the information inside and if it possible, the disk too, but more important than that the information inside it.
also, i tried to fix it using hiren's boot and hdat2 to see what was wrong, but i m new in this area so i really need help. Using this tools i found this different problems:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Did you swap the ROM chip (8 legged chip starting with 25) from the patient PCB to your donor? This is essential or you will not get access to your data.

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