SoftCenter flash extractor kit review

What is SoftCenter flash extractor kit?

SoftCenter flash extractor kit includes three flash chip adapters and supports wide ranges of controllers, SoftCenter is an leading flash memory data recovery developer and with such background file extractor is quite a sound flash data recovery equipments. Flash Extractor works with connected reader only. The software supports Windows XP OS and USB 2.0 interface. 

♣ Manufacturer: SoftCenter

♣ Price:  USD2354 (not including shipping cost)

File extractor reader: USD1784+Flash Chip adapters: USD590

♣ What kind of problems is SoftCenter Flash Extractor able to handle?

-Controller damage
-PCB damage
-logical failure like accidental file deletion, format, clone, virus damage, etc;
-Bad blocks in the memory chip
- Convert dump file of flash chip to disk image

♣ Advantages:

-high success rate with the help of SoftCenter technique support
- good controller support database and the data combination algorism is good too
-can work with xD / SD card, TSOP-48-Short, TLGA (17 x 12mm)

♣ Disadvantages:

-Price is high, shipping cost excluding, software upgrade and technique support will charge extra fees.
- The software is not so intelligent and not suitable for beginners
- too professional to understand the software

♣ Upgrade and support:

Extra charge for technique support and software upgrade

♣ DataTools Review Ideas and Tips:

Some users claimed that “Interface of this product is awful, this tool created only for program mists, not for data recovery specialists” “the software just raw software” and as stated by softcenter people: “Our products are instrument for specialist”. We can see how many technical skills flash extractor required for the users. However, there are still people say it is powerful flash data recovery equipments and with comparatively high success rate with the help of softcenter’s technique supporters.

Reference:

Reader can read ALL chips with NAND flash interface.

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Adapters:
xD / SD card adapter            70$
TLGA (17 x 12mm) adapter      260$
TSOP-48-Short adapter          260$

Flash extractor reader

Price
License	Cost	Destination
Assemblers on every day
Mix Editor	87$	Flash disks are small raids. We need remove striping before run main assemblers. Description
ECC	87$	Bit errors correction with ECC Details
Block_Number	74$	For controllers with block number in service area. Controller examples:  • OTI002168  • USBest  • PHISON  • PL-2515PRO  • No name Kingston SD  • hyperstone F2-16XT  • hyperstone F2-L16XT  • SK6602
AU6389	74$	For AU6389 controller
SM32xx	74$	For SM32xx controller
Assemblers for rare controllers
Memory Stick	74$	Controllers:  • KTC FC1203N  • KTC FC1325N No Name:  • Memory Stick 1  • Memory Stick 8
Memory_Stick_7	30$	No name controller: • Memory Stick 7
Memory_Stick_Samsung	130$	Controller: • Memory Stick Samsung
iCreate	65$	Controllers: i5128, i5122
iCreate_5062	65$	Controllers: i5062
Lexar	130$	Controllers:  • FC1610-TC-AF  • FC1610-TC-AN  • FC1610-TC-AJ  • FC2410-TC-AD  • FC2510-TC-AA
SSS6677	74$	Controller:  • SSS6677
SSS6690	74$	Controller:  • SSS6690  • TC58NC6688G1F
TC58NC9973	65$	Controller:  • TC58NC9973
TC58NC9983	74$	Controller:  • TC58NC9983
Transcend_f0	74$	Controllers:  • PHISON PS2151  • SSS 6671 A1-L5C  • SSS 6673 A1-L5C  • SSS 8873 A2-S3C  • TC58NC6686G1F 1 Gb  • TC58NC6682G1F  • Trek TD2SMG9-01LBN  • U20JV0002
S3F49FAX	130$	Controllers:  • 3F49FAXZZ-TXRA
MW6208E	74$	Controller:  • MW6208E
CBM2091	74$	Controller:  • CBM2091
Olympus_xD_2	31$	Controller:  • No Name
Special
JPEG Scanner	130$	JPEG recovery from not converted dump Details

Data Compass Standard+Data Copy King

What can Data Compass Standard+Data Copy King do?

1,  Recover data from hard drives and flash drives with either logical or physical failure;

2, Recover or image files you wanted only;

3, Recover and image unstable drives with a lot of bad sectors or clicking drives or unstable drives after head swap;

4, 7GB/min sector by sector hard disk duplication

5, 8GB/min 999 rounds of data wiping hardware solutions

6, Image/recover data by selective heads

7, Easy to handle and fully configurable

June 1st: Latest news about Data Copy King: Data Copy King is actually the hardware add-on of Data Compass and Data Compass King version includes Data Compass Standard and Data Copy King!

SalvationDATA are providing a big discount to their newly upgraded Data Compass King Version.

♣ What is Data Copy King?

Data Copy King(DCK) is so far the fastest 1:1 hard drive duplicator, disk wipe tool and HDD auto detection tool! With color touch screen, DCK is widely used among DR, IT, computer forensics, security agencies, Education.

♣ Manufacturer:  SalvationDATA Technology LLC.

♣ Price:

USD1998 including shipping cost (Discounts avaliable)

♣ What kind of problems is Data Copy King able to handle?

-Clone a hard drive at blazing speed of 7.0GB/min
-Clone a hard drive with lots of bad sectors at high speed
-CRC32, MD5 and SHA-256 enable exactly an original copy
-Wipe a hard drive at 8.0GB/min, impossible to recover
-Wipe a hard drive strictly following DoD specifications
-Supports Windows 7, Vista and any kind of OS
-effecient for TB-level hard drives supporting up to 131072TB
- bad sector repair and muti bad sector handling methods
- image or wipe partion only
- image to files

♣ Advantages:

-Fastest -Has innovative bad sector repair and bypassing technology
-Free lifetime software upgrade,
-Computer forensic friendly with physical read only solution

♣ Disadvantages:

-Not fully configurable
- the system is not so stable sometimes

♣ Upgrade and support:

Free lifetime immediate online upgrade and free technique support

♣ DataTools Review Ideas and Tips:

Data Copy King is one hard drive duplicator with advantages in speed for both disk image and data wiping, and it’s great for those with requirement of high-speed data backup and forensic data capture. because it is a new series of products from SD, therefore the program is a little unstable sometimes. Hope the continuing improvements will make it better. 

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
Picture
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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