Deep Spar Disk Imager Review

What is DeepSpar Disk Imager?

DeepSpar Disk Imager3—released inFebruary 1st, 2010–is a drive to drive imaging tool with emphasis on data recovery. It is a small box and has to be connected to PC. It is an one-to-two disk image tool with transfer speed of 4.5GB/min, adopts UDMA5 transfer mode and only supports DOS.

♣ Manufacturer: DeepSpar

♣ Price: 3350USD

♣ What kind of problems is DeepSpar Disk Imager able to handle?

-Multi-pass imaging
-Imaging only partition/files that you need
-image hard disk with bad sectors
-power protection for the source drive
-drive diagnostics; individual heads test, PCB test(optional), mechanical issues(optional)
-image by selective head
-wipe disk

♣ Advantages:

-image by selective head
-image only occupied area
-provide visual interactive feedback to the user and workflow

♣ Disadvantages:

-Not so desirable in bad sector handling
-no log records
-adopts UDMA5 mode, the disk image transfer rate is not so satisfied

♣ Upgrade and support:

With free and paid support for option. One year warranty and free upgrade

♣ DataTools Review Ideas and Tips:

With user taking a hand in some of the configuration and view the operation processing, especially the visualization of the operation processing make it looks more professional. It is indeed powerful from their marketing papers; however it is more like software than hardware.