When looking at the hundreds of different file recovery programs, how are we to choose which of these is the best file recovery software? Is price the sole determinant of quality? Certainly not. Price is seldom a factor either plus or minus. We all know that the cheapest item is usually not the best. But we also know that the most expensive may not be a fair and honest value. Some of the things we need to look for when checking over file recovery software are speed of recovery, percentage of successful recovery, and whether or not files recovered are presented in a usable state. Speed of recovery is an important factor because if a program for data recovery is obsolete, a thorough scan of a 100 GB hard drive can take four or five hours. With many hard drives now totaling 640 GB in size, a slow program could take almost a week to do a scan. File Finder will scan a 100 GB hard drive in around an hour.
When examining percentages of successful data recovery we should consider that many file recovery programs have a success ratio of lower than 50%. File Finder will successfully recover fully 95% of all recently deleted files. Another important factor in choosing the best file recovery software it is how recoverable files are presented. Often a file recovery program is only able to present found files as unnamed. This means that you must actually recover every file and open them one by one searching for your lost information. File Finder recovers files in an organized list that includes both the original file name and the pathway by which that file had originally been stored.
