Data Compass Review

What is Data Compass?

Data Compass is a hardware and software complex data extraction tool. Data Compass has two versions:

Data Compass standard version
Data Compass Premium Version with RAID repair add-on, all hard drives working with Data Compass must be detected in the bios except Hitachi hard drives, Data Compass supports to bypass the firmware failure and extracts the data directly.

Data Compass works with HD Doctor and HPE PRO to repair dead hard drives, scratched hard drives, repair and recover drives with lots of bad sectors, recover and repair clicking drives.

♣ Manufacturer:  SalvationDATA Technology LLC

♣ Price: USD3300 around for standard version and USD3800 around for premium version, shipping cost is included!

♣ What kind of problems is Data Compass able to solve?

* Hard drives with severe bad sectors
* Hard drives with logical failure such as file deletion, accidental format and clone, virus attack, etc
* Hard drives with unstable head and clicking noises but still detected in the bios
* RAID failure of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 5e, RAID 5ee;

♣ Advantages:

* For hard drives with severe bad sectors, Data compass has a much higher success rate of possibility to extract the data and 80% more data to be extracted than any other tools!
* For hard drives with clicking, Data Compass is so far the best choice with the biggest possibility to be used directly for data recovery;
* Data Compass has shadow disk and SA emulation technology which are unique;
* Data Compass supports all types of hard drives and supports FAT, NTFS, HFX, EXT2(3), etc.
* Data Compass supports imaging by selective heads

♣ Disadvantages:

* Can not work alone with drives which can not be detected;
* Support time is not enough, support is not 24/7, only available from Monday to Friday in their office hours

♣ Upgrade and Technique Support: Free lifetime software upgrade and technique support!

♣ DataTools Review Ideas and Tips:

Data Compass is definitely a good choice for beginners in data recovery business, cause’ it requires no training and is able to solve many data recovery cases as stated above. For more difficult cases or more advanced data recovery experiences, you should consider a plus with HD Doctor suite or PC-3000 data recovery suite as well.

Data Compass Unlimited

What is Data Compass Unlimited?

Data compass unlimited version is a package solution including data compass with data copy king add-on. It integrates the strength both of the data recovery hardware tools so as to support any operating system and file system; with build-in IDE and SATA interface, other drives is able to be connected with adaptors. Data compass released in 2008, data copy king in 2010.

♣ Manufacturer:  SalvationDATA Technology LLC

♣ Price: USD4780 around, shipping cost is included

Tips: it was known that SD gives some 20% discount for this newly released version

♣ What kind of problems is Data Compass Unlimited able to solve?

*cover faulty hard drives & flash drives logically or physically;
*Recover or image files you wanted only;
* Recover or image bad sectors/clicking/unstable drives fast;
*7GB/min sector by sector disk imaging and 8GB/min 999 rounds of data wiping hardware solutions;
*image/recover data by selective heads;
*Recover Hitachi drives directly bypassing firmware corruption;
*Build-in write blocker protecting source data 100%;
*power protect with power status map

♣ Advantages:

* SA emulation technology—recovery data from Hitachi HD while bypassing firmware issues
* comprehensive functionality – disk test, disk image, data recovery and disk wipe;
* supporting large capacity hard drives with impressing transfer speed,
* with higher success rate For hard drives with severe bad sectors or unstable hard drives

♣ Disadvantages:

*Without hash verification currently
* More detailed user manual is required

♣ Upgrade and Technique support: Free lifetime software upgrade and technique support!

One year warranty, two and three year extension (USD250/2; USD400/3)

♣ Data Tools Review Ideas and Tips:

As the name indicated, it is an unlimited and comprehensive data recovery hardware solution with reasonable price and transfer speed significantly upgraded. Though there were complaints about the former user manual and limited supporting for large capacity hard drives, the present version seems quite satisfying in these two aspects. This package is much easier to use than the hdd repair tools which need professional skills and applicable to each industry.

Atola Imager VS SD Data Compass Review

Atola Imager VS SD Data Compass Review

It is a comparison table between Atola Imager and SD Data Compass. This table will help buyers to have a general knowledge of data recovery or disk image tools in one single sight.

Items	Atola Imager	SD DataCompass
General
Approximate price	$1890-$2990	$3300-3800 USD
OS supported	Windows	windows
System interface	Gigabit Ethernet	USB
Data Recovery Features
Recover data form damages in partition data structures (FAT, MFT, INODE tables etc.)	×	√
user data are deleted	×	√
RAW file recovery	×	√
Recovery data from windows dynamic disk	×	√
Recovery data from RAID system	×	√
Viewing and editing data structures of various file systems	×	√
File classification by type/ visited time/created time / modified time	×	√
Create recovered File directory table in HTML and send to customer	×	√
Extract data From “showdown disk” to protect source HDD	×	√
Extract data via SA emulation	×	√
From corrupted partitions	×	√
Monitor power supply temperature	×	√
Power surge protection	√	√
Image Features
Image specific files	×	√(FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3, HFS, HFX)
Dynamic UDMA mode alteration according to the condition of the HDD	×	√
From HDD with multiple bad sectors	×	√
Form HDD with “clicking” sounds	×	√
Image data areas only	√	√
Head map	×	√
Image by head	×	√
Switch between specific DMA and UDMA modes	×	√
Set sector range to mirror	√(requires multiple sessions that don’t cross reference the same sector map)	√
Image to file	Yes via network connection	√
Skip ‘x’ number of sectors	×	√
Image to network drive	√	×
Reverse clone	√	√
Hardware reset	×	√
Visible sector map	×	√
Stored configuration data	In Case management database	In Case management database
Set max LBA on destination	×	√
Power oscilloscope	×	√
Time to read sectors oscilloscope	√	√
Head and media test	×	√
Read ignoring ECC	×	√
Checksum calculations	MD5 SHA1,SHA224,SHA256,SHA384, SHA512	CRC
Set read timeout	√	√
Log of bad sectors	√	√
e-email notification	√	×
Force read in PIO Mode	×	√
Set read block size	√(the system slows down significantly with smaller block sizes)	√
Customizable algorithms (Set read response based on individual sector read errors	×	√
Disable SMART operations	√	√
Turn off “read bad sector” auto reallocation	√	√
Disable read look ahead	×	√
Reset HPA	×	√
Enable/Disable overwrite unread sectors	×	√
Write protection	√	√
Wipe destination sector by sector	×	√
Wipe unprocessed sectors	×	×
Set number of sectors to skip	√	√
Live sector view	×	√
Health 1TB transfer speed	100 MB/second	60MB/second
Others
Software update	One year for free-Software update for 1 year   $499.00 -Software update for 2 years $899.00-Software update for 3 years $1199.00	free
Technical support	Limited email support	free support
Warranty	One year	One year

Get more about SalvationDATA Technology Data Compass: http://www.salvationdata.com

Get more about Atola Imager: http://atola.com/products

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