Functionality comparison

Choose the Recovery Explorer edition that best fits your recovery scenario – from simple file recovery to RAID, NAS and other advanced storage technologies.

Comparison table of Recovery Explorer editions

The table below provides a brief overview of the features available in different editions, helping you compare their capabilities and select the most appropriate solution.

Recovery Explorer functions Standard RAID Professional
Supported storage media
Internal hard drives & SSDs
External USB drives
Memory cards & USB sticks
Disk images & virtual disks
Supported file systems
FAT / exFAT / NTFS / ReFS
HFS+ / APFS
Ext2/3/4, UFS/UFS2, XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, Btrfs
Linux F2FS
ZFS, OpenZFS, ZFS on Linux
VMware ESX(i) VMFS, VMFS6
Novell NWFS / NSS / NSS64, older Windows HPFS (data access only)
Ext4 on WD My Cloud Home, WD My Cloud Home Duo
RAID recovery
Standard RAID (0, 1, 1E, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Nested RAID (10/50/60)
Custom RAID (RDL)
Non-standard RAID (Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID, OpenBSD softraid)
Non-standard RAID (Drobo BeyondRAID, ZFS RAID-Z)
Other storage technologies
Linux mdadm, LVM (including thin-provisioning)
Windows Dynamic Disks, Storage Spaces
Microsoft volumes with Data Deduplication
Apple Software RAID, Fusion Drive (based on APFS)
Apple Core Storage
Hardware acceleration (Intel Optane, Drobo mSATA cache, QNAP/Synology SSD cache)
Decryption techniques
BitLocker / BitLocker To Go
FileVault 2 / encrypted APFS / encrypted DMG
LUKS / TrueCrypt / VeraCrypt / eCryptfs
Encrypted VMware VMDK
Encrypted OpenBSD softraid
Interface
Alternative wizard-style interface