Disk Drill

What do you like best?

I thought all was lost on an encrypted external HFS journaled hard drive when it would no longer mount. I had many photos and media on the 4tb drive that were not redundant on other drives, so recovery was crucial. I tried fsck at the command line to no avail. With the academic discount, the price was just under 80 bucks, after a deep scan, voila my files were recovered. I highly recommend. A discount data recovery job runs about 500-700 bucks, so this was much cheaper and efficacious. You can also make an image of a drive that doesn't mount in your os. I will have to try the delete duplicates on my SSD which boots my OS, seems like nifty feature. Final verdict: highly recommend. Its worth the money over competitors.

What do you dislike?

I wish it was a bit cheaper. 49 bucks seems like my sweet point. But whatever, its definitely cheaper and time saving vs delegating this task to a 3rd party data recovery operation.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

By the time you waste at command line or trying other products, you could have easily saved your own labor by purchasing pro or enterprise.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I used disk drill for data recovery, which I was unable to perform at the command level on my UNIX machine. It worked as advertised. If I needed to know more about digital forensics (which I dont), the enterprise suite seems like it may be able to produce court worthy evidence.