Best Data Recovery Softwares 2009

Digital Rescue Premium
Price: $49.99
An easy-to-use interface and “Smart Wizard” make finding and restoring your accidentally deleted photos, videos, music, emails and other files easier than ever before.

Recover My Files
Version: 3.9.8.6307
Price:$69.95
Recover My Files data recovery software will easily recover deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, or lost due to the format or corruption of a hard drive, virus or Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure.

Data Recovery Wizard
Version: V4.3.6
$69.95
Advanced data recovery software to do format recovery and recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin or lost data due to partition loss or damage.

Windows Data Recovery Software
$129.00
Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery is much more then an simple undelete software or a file recovery program. Its versatility begins when other software fails to recover or even is not able to display data.

Handy Recovery
$49.00
Handy Recovery™ is an easy-to-use data recovery software designed to restore files accidentally deleted from hard disks and memory cards.

ParetoLogic Data Recovery Pro
$49.95
Bring accidentally deleted emails and their attachments back to life. You can also recover a wide variety of other file types.

Quick Recovery
$69.00
Quick Recovery FAT & NTFS is professional windows data recovery software & rated as best data recovery tool to undelete data, recover deleted files & recover deleted data from formatted partition of Windows Operating System.

GetDataBack
Version:3.64
For NTFS:$79
GetDataBack is good data recovery software that scans your hard drive and then allows you to browse through options to find and view files before you actually recover them.

R-Studio
$79.99
an ideal file recovery solution for IT specialists and advanced users who need to recover or undelete lost data .R-Studio offers many tools to help you to find your lost or deleted data. With this product you can recover data over a network, make virtual RAIDS and recover data off a CD or DVD.

Restorer2000
Version:3.3
$49.99
Restorer2000 3.3 is the reliable data recovery utility that provides you with powerful undelete, data recovery and disk restoration functionality.

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WD Drives Caviar Blue vs Green vs Black

A coworker asked me, and other than the cache size and power consumption, i wasn’t sure what else to answer… What is the difference between the colors of Caviar drives? I’ve been under the impression it is primarily the power consumption but I have to assume there are other things as well.

Performance. The Black is optimized for performance at the expense of noise and power consumption, the blue is a general use drive, designed to be a good balance of performance, power consumption, and noise, and the green is designed to use as little power and make as little noise as possible at the expense of performance.

I’m having a dilemma of choosing which version of Caviar for storage/backup purposes.

I need a HDD which is stable, durable and can last for a longer time.
I’ll only use this HDD for backing up my important data once a week, which means I’ll just leave it unplug at the rest of the time.

I plan to go for an internal HDD with an external dock, which I think it will be more flexible switching between IN/EXternal usage and getting emergency backup when the HDD encounters any bad sector issues.

For my understanding, a LOW RPM HDD will definitely be more stable than a HIGH RPM HDD. Is it true?

Through my experience, I’ve a 2009 Caviar Blue, which doesn’t has any issue until today, while I have a couple units of Caviar Black 2009 FALS & 2010 FAEX which encountered with some issues (through checking via HD Tune). Beside that, I’ve also used Caviar Green before, but I felt it is slow when the drive turns from idle to active due to the energy saving technology in it? Correct me if I’m wrong.

So, based on my requirement, which version of Caviar suit me most and which should I go for? Green, Blue, or Black ?

Any of those HDD’s will be stable, each are as likely to break as each other. Only difference is price and performance.

Greens – slow, minimal energy savings (nowhere near worth the loss of performance), generally same price.
Blue – Mid-range, average performance.
Blacks – Faster and more expensive.

There are also Red drives, which are a mix of Green and Blue and optimized for mass storage (talking large scale business server stuff). They have no real use in desktops though.

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