Comparison review of Data copy king and Atola Imager

Comparison review of Data copy king and Atola Imager 

 The comparison table will help the potential customer to compare and make a choice with one single sight between Data copy king and Atola Imager.

Brand Features	Data Copy King	Atola Imager
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Price (USD)	1998	1890
Firstly release date	2010-4	2009-12
Independence of utilization	Independent utilization	Together with Atola Insight
Hard Disk duplication
Bad sector handling	Latest sector repair and bypassing technology①	Yes
Drives with clicking②	Yes	N/A
Unstable heads after head swap③	Yes	N/A
Duplication speed	7.0GB/min	5.1GB/min
Drive logically damaged	Yes	Yes
Session processing	Automatically resets/reboots hard drive	Stop/resume session anytime
Verification	CRC32/MD5/SHA-256	MD5/SHA-1/224/256/384/512
Physical read-only	Yes	N/A
Capacity supported	Support maximum 131072TB	Medium and small capacity
Target drive	One-to-one	One-to-one
OS supported	Any operating system	Any operating system
Duplication mode	Random LBA/ sector manual setting /forward and backward / DDD imaging /absolute imaging	Multiple-pass imaging/reverse imaging/imaging only occupied sectors
Transmission standard	UDMA-133	UDMA-133
Port supported	Build-in IDE/SATA/USB SCSI (adopter)	IDE/SATA
Windows 7 and windows Vista	Yes	Yes
Hard disk wipe
Wipe speed	8.0GB/min	N/A
Wipe standard④	DOD	N/A
Wipe modes	O fill and F fill and LBA random	N/A
Clearness of wipe	Absolute clearness   ( access to HPA/DCO)	N/A
Log generation/view/printing	Yes	N/A
Hard disk diagnostics
Bad sector detection	Yes	Yes
User authority	Three-level	One-level
Service and support
Operation language	Customizing language⑤	Only English
Upgrade and support	Timely and lifetime	E-mail
Warranty	One year( three years optional)	One year
Training	0 training required	N/A

Note:

①: The built-in latest sector repair and bypassing technology which is used in Data Compass is able to retrieve up to 95 % of bad sectors that are partially corrupted and cannot be cloned or imaged by any other tools.

② able to clone or image data on a patient disk with clicking on the precondition that the patient disk can be identified in the Bios.

③ abler to clone or image data on an unstable head after head swap.

④ DOD: America Department of Defense

⑤ a customizing language will be available during the upgrade in the near future.

Info provided in the review comes from following two websites:

SalvationDATA Technology           

http://www.salvationdata.com/data-recovery-equipment/data-copy-king.htm

Atola imger

http://atola.com/products

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