PRODUCT COMPARISON

RECOVERY EXPLORER Professional
Recovery Explorer 10Release 2023
UFS Professional
UFS Explorer 10Release 2023

Choose the edition:

Standard RAID Professional
Recovery Explorer Professional

Recovery Explorer
Professional

VS
UFS Explorer Professional Recovery

UFS Explorer
Professional Recovery

KEY DIFFERENCES:
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
  • Data recovery from Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays (recovery from degraded RAID 5, RAID 10, etc. and up to double-degraded RAID 6, RAID 60; volume recovery using an external data map)
  • Professional disk imager with advanced parameters and control over the imaging process
  • Writing information about defective areas encountered during disk imaging to a map indicating bad blocks
  • Creating images of drives, partitions and files on the basis of a bitmap
  • Conversion of the occupied file system space to a mask that emulates bad blocks
  • Possibility to create a "dynamic" pattern-based map of defective blocks for a disk image
  • Handling defective areas on disk images using bad sector maps created internally or by compatible third-party solutions (ACE Lab PC-3000, ACE Data Recovery MHZ, DeepSpar DDI and others)
  • Direct access over LAN and work with drives connected via DeepSpar DDI, including their imaging by a bitmap
  • Support for task files created by the MRT Data Explorer software
  • Control over disk imaging performed by MRT solutions through interaction with MRT DE (imaging by a bitmap, selecting files/folders, etc.)
  • Automatic mutation of a sector size (for drives that have non-standard block sizes)
  • Specialized tool for unlocking and decrypting drives secured by ATA password protection or hardware encryption
  • Dynamic definition of virtual bad blocks on disk images using an external map or by recognizing a defined pattern
  • Price from$189.95
  • Price from$629.95

SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS FOR READING SUPPORTED FILE SYSTEMS
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS/ReFS3
  • Apple HFS+, APFS
  • Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Extended format XFS, Linux JFS, ReiserFS, F2FS, Btrfs
  • UFS/UFS2, Adaptec UFS, big-endian UFS
  • Sun ZFS, Open ZFS, ZFS on Linux
  • VMFS, VMFS6
  • Novell NWFS, NSS, NSS64 (only data access)
  • Legacy Microsoft HPFS, Apple HFS (only data access)
  • Microsoft volumes with enabled data deduplication
  • Specific instances of Ext4 on WD My Cloud Home, WD My Cloud Home Duo
no difference
SCANNING SCANNING
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Immediate access to non-damaged volumes for pre-recovery analysis
  • Full-range storage scan for all-at-once data recovery
  • Six different options for handling the existing file system
  • Scanning by known content (the IntelliRAW technology)
  • Detecting lost partitions
  • Automated partition aligning
  • The option of pausing the scan and previewing the intermediate results
  • The option of saving scan results for future work
  • Special tools for work with partitions (defining partitions manually, creating disk image files, etc.)
  • Visualization of the scanning process
  • Search for the missing LVM volumes
no difference
RAID SUPPORT RAID SUPPORT
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Automatic recognition of known RAID metadata, saving and editing RAID configurations
  • Automatic reconstruction of mdadm, LVM, Apple Software RAID, APFS-based Fusion Drive, NT LDM (Dynamic Disks), OpenBSD BIO, Intel Matrix, etc.
  • Support for standard RAID: RAID 0, RAID 1E, RAID 3, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 7, etc.
  • RAID-on-RAID support: RAID 10, RAID levels 50, 60, 50E, etc.
  • Support for custom RAID patterns via RAID Definition Language or Runtime VIM
  • Adaptive reconstruction of RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 5E, RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 0+1 and nested RAID (levels 50, 51, 60, 61, etc.) using maps of bad sectors and in case of presence of defects (reading errors)
  • Support for Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology SHR, Btrfs-RAID, ZFS RAID-Z, OpenBSD softraid
  • Support for composite volumes: Windows Dynamic Disks, Microsoft Storage Spaces, Apple Core Storage, Fusion Drive, LVM with thin provisioning
  • RAID assembly from disk images or virtual disks
  • Virtual decomposition of assembled RAID sets
  • Visualization of RAID content and layout
  • Building multiple configurations from the same source RAID
  • Caching for enhanced RAID recovery speed in case of a small stripe size
  • Support for hybrid and cached storage units: Intel Optane Memory, Drobo with mSATA cache, QNAP and Synology with SSD write-cache, etc.
differences:
  • Data recovery from Dell EqualLogic Storage Arrays (Recovery from degraded RAID 5, RAID 10, etc. and up to double-degraded RAID 6, RAID 60; volume recovery using an external data map)
  • Data recovery from Synology RAID-F1
WORK WITH DEFECTIVE DRIVES Work with defective drives
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Reading out data utilizing the means of the operating system
  • Support for disk images instead of original media (including created by third-party software)
  • Configurable drive reading procedure
  • Read-once disk access with saving of processed data
  • Support for disk images created by MRT data recovery tools (sorting and combining file image chunks into an image file)
differences:
  • Professional-grade disk imager with advanced control over defective blocks and support for various output formats
  • Production of defects maps and logs during disk imaging
  • Imaging of disks, partitions, files on the basis of a bitmap
  • Conversion of used file system space to a mask emulating bad blocks
  • Creating "dynamic" (pattern-based) maps of bad blocks for disk images
  • Processing of defective areas on disk images with the help of bad sector maps created by the program or compatible third-party tools (DeepSpar DDI, ACE Lab PC-3000, ACE Data Recovery MHZ and others)
  • Direct network access and work with disks connected via DeepSpar DDI, including imaging by a bitmap
  • Support for task files created by MRT Data Explorer
  • Control of disk imaging performed by MRT solutions through interaction with MRT DE (imaging by a bitmap, selecting files/folders, etc.)
  • Special tool for monitoring drive activity and read/write speed
ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND INSTRUMENTS
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Opening a set of disk image chunks as a spanned storage
  • Interactive HTML report
  • Basic list of folders and files (HTML, CSV, XML)
  • Report on recoverable data size with metadata test
  • Indication of files’ validity status in scan results
  • Software events log
differences:
  • Automatic sector mutation (for drives with non-standard sector sizes)
  • iSCSI access to storages of a local/remote computer (iSCSI target)
  • Support for certain data protection devices (WiebeTech, Tableau, DeepSpar and others)
HEXADECIMAL ANALYSIS Hexadecimal analysis
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Hexadecimal viewer for storages, partitions, files, file fragments
  • Hexadecimal editor for disks and partitions
  • Field highlighting
  • Data interpreter
  • Parity calculator
  • Data allocation tracing through reverse address translation
  • Storage content comparison
  • Bitwise "exclusive OR" (XOR) function
  • Parallel search
  • View of file/folder allocation information and direct access to its fragments
  • View of file/folder descriptor disposition and direct access to its on-disk position
  • Indication of used file system space
no difference
DECRYPTION TECHNIQUES Decryption techniques
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Full-disk encryption
  • Windows BitLocker
  • LUKS encryption
  • TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt
  • Apple FileVault 2
  • Encryption of Apple APFS volumes
  • Encrypted Apple DMG disk images
  • File system conversion (eCryptFS)
  • Encrypted VMware VMDK virtual disks
  • Full volume/shared folder encryption on NAS units
  • Password-based encryption on OpenBSD softraid
differences:
  • Dedicated tool for access to drives protected by ATA password locking or hardware encryption, like WD drives with JMS538E, Inic-1607E and other bridge chips
WORKING WITH DISK IMAGES AND VIRTUAL MACHINES WORKING WITH DISK IMAGES AND VIRTUAL MACHINES
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Support for:
    VMware VMDK, Hyper-V VHD/VHDX, QEMU/XEN QCOW/QCOW2, VirtualBox VDI, Parallels HDD/HDS, Apple DMG, sparsebundle, backupbundle, EnCase E01 and Ex01 non-encrypted files, simple disk images
  • Internal sparse format
  • Opening a drive as a disk image (for XEN and others)
  • Support for Synology Sparse iSCSI
  • Support for R-Studio image files (RDR file format)
  • Support for “split” disk images created by DeepSpar DDI
differences:
  • Dynamic definition of virtual bad blocks on disk images using an external map or by recognizing a given pattern
TRIAL LIMITATIONS AND LICENSING LICENSING
TRIAL LICENSE
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Unlimited in time usage
  • Free of charge
  • Saving files smaller than 768 KB
PERSONAL LICENSE
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
differences:
  • Lifetime use of a licensed software version
  • One year of free software updates
  • Using on a single personal computer without trial limitations
  • Using for educational purposes
  • The license is not available
  • Price $189.95
COMMERCIAL LICENSE
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
similarities:
  • Lifetime use of a licensed software version
  • One year of free software updates
  • Using for commercial purposes or providing services
differences:
  • Using on a single computer in a company without trial limitations
  • Using on company computers, with the total number not exceeding the number of issued "seats"
  • Using on a single computer in the home environment without trial limitations
  • Using on computers in the home environment within the limit of issued "seats"
  • Using by multiple persons (up to 3 per single license)
  • Using by multiple persons (unlimited for each "seat")
  • Price $484.95
  • Price from $629.95
CORPORATE LICENSE
Recovery Explorer
UFS Explorer
differences:
  • Lifetime use of a licensed software version
  • One year of free software updates
  • Using on up to 10 company's computers without trial limitations
  • Using for educational purposes
  • Using in corporate environment and for technical support
  • Using by multiple persons (up to 10 per single license)
  • The license is not available
  • Price $839.95
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