When looking at the hundreds of different programs to find data, 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 retrieval tools are speed of drive scanning, percentage of successful recovery, and whether or not files resaved are presented in a usable state. Speed of memory scanning is an important factor because if a program for data rescue is obsolete, a thorough scan of a 100 GB hard drive can take four or five hours.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. FileFinder will scan a 100 GB hard drive in around an hour.
When examining percentages of successful data recovery we should consider that many programs for retrieval have a success ratio of lower than 50%. FileFinder will successfully find fully 95% of all recently deleted data. Another important factor in choosing the best file recovery software it is how reclaimed data is presented. Often a recovery program is only able to present found files as unnamed. This means that you must actually copy out all of the digital information and open each item one by one searching for your lost information. FileFinder restores information in an organized list that includes both the original file name and the pathway by which it had originally been stored.
