Certainly there can be a great deal of debate as to which is the best hard drive recovery software. Indeed there are over 100 manufacturers of programs designed with the intent of helping you to recover both deleted files and existing files on your computer’s internal drive. The criteria one would use to determine which of these is best are fairly obvious and standardized. Price would certainly be a factor and with the average cost of data recovery software being approximately $100, FileFinder’s $39.95 cost would seem to give our program a distinct advantage. But as in all things price is not an indicator of quality.
Ways to measure the quality of file rescue programs
In data retrieval, product speed is one such indicator. Consider that our application can scan a complete 640 gigabyte hard disk in under a minute and you will realize that it certainly is competitive in this area. Even factoring price and speed combined there still remains one feature that sets FileFinder apart and above every other recovery program. That is its unique Windows OS shell. FileFinder loads on to your computer by means of its CD/DVD disk drive and this miniature version of Windows. This allows the program to operate with no risk of ever overwriting existing data and with no need to piggyback your hard drive on to another computer.
How important are FileFinder’s features when choosing the best hard drive recovery software?
They basically mark the difference between being able to handle any data recovery problem on your own and having to rely on a computer service technician. Using FileFinder for your data recovery problems means that you will pay one 20th the cost of using a service laboratory. Another important factor is time. If you have to remove your PC’s internal disk drive and ship it away to a computer service laboratory, you can expect that desktop or laptop to be out of use for at least one week. That is unless you choose to pay for rush service which basically doubles the cost of getting your files back. Also consider that you have stored on your computer sensitive and personal information. If you do online banking from your PC a service laboratory technician will be able to access and copy all of your financial information such as social security numbers and credit card accounts. Obviously this is not information you want to set loose onto the Internet. Even personal records such as medical information will be available to anyone working on your computer’s hard disk. Once you remove your hard drive and send it away to a laboratory you might as well dismiss all thoughts of maintaining the confidentiality of that information.
Once again we return to our theme of which is the best hard drive recovery software. Obviously the answer to this is that the best suite of software is the one that allows you to most easily perform any file recovery task on your own without assistance or interference from anyone else.
