September 9
Conventional wisdom would dictate that a software-based data recovery would be more economical than a hardware-based recovery. This is not always the case. Both methodologies can involve quite a bit of hands on involvement.
Software recoveries (also logical recoveries) utilize not only our in-house software (think of an enhanced version CBL Pro-V with increased functionality) as well as manual intervention. Some extreme cases require a software engineer to fix files and structures one by one. As you can imagine this can be very time consuming.
Hardware recoveries, which require clean room time, involve steady hands and sensitive components. The sheer amount of experience and knowledge is quite extensive. Often difficult projects require several trips into the clean room to get things just right.
At the same time it is not a foregone conclusion that software recoveries are more successful than hardware recoveries. For example, a 5 drive RAID array that has been initialized has about the same recovery rate as a 1 terabyte hard drive with a motor problem, not good. While an accidental file deletion or a 80 gigabyte hard drive with a minor head crash has fairly good chances for a full recovery.
So just remember that a software recovery is not always simple and a hardware recovery is not always hard. Every project that CBL sees is unique and is treated as such. They require analysis, planning, and their own recovery approach. Whatever the situation CBL Data Recovery has the people, tools, and knowledge to handle your data needs.
Category: data recovery
Tags: data recovery evaluation, hardware, recovery software
