In one of our other sales and discussion articles we examined several data retrieval companies to arrive at a decision as to which one was the best. Our unbiased conclusion was that FileFinder is clearly superior. In this article we will be taking a direct look at Stellar data recovery.
They are much the typical file and information retrieval company. They offer a variety of products each aimed at either achieving a specific task or selling a program under that guise. Generally speaking Stellar offers the usual assortment of products for retrieving files. They have a program for finding files on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac. Unlike other companies that choose to divide their Windows products into several smaller packages based on the version of Windows one might be using Stellar takes a higher road by bundling all of the software needed for Windows recovery into one package. Unfortunately the lowest price for this package is $108.00. Their Linux and Macintosh software is equally expensive.
iPod music and photo rescue
Stellar Info also offers software designed for retrieval of digital photos and iPod files. Both of these are more moderately priced at $39.00 each. Digital photo rescue software can be better when designed as a separate package as in this case. But the Stellar data recovery program for retrieval of lost or damaged digital images does not effectively find high end camera files. iPod recovery entails a simple search for audio files in the iPod format. Almost any basic undelete program can already do this.
The difficulty of using Stellar recovery programs on crashed hard drives
And another point to consider is that Stellar fails to mention that their software will not rescue files on a crashed hard drive unless connected by cable to a separate technician computer. This effectively limits the use of their programs by 50%. In fact our examination found that the only Stellar data recovery software that has any merit is their Macintosh recovery package. In all other areas FileFinder was far superior. When used for Windows data retrieval our program was faster and located more deleted files. FileFinder also does not require the assistance of a technician computer when dealing with a crashed hard disk. Although it is not of paramount importance we would be slow to dismiss the comparison factor of price. Our FileFinder system costs less than half that of the Windows recovery program offered by our competitor.
