We recorded the length of how long the scan took on our test system, which features a 7th-gen Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz processor (overclocked to 5.1GHz on closed-loop liquid cooling), 16GB of DDR4-3000MHz RAM, a 256GB m.2 SSD, a 1TB HDD, and an NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU. To test Disk Drill Pro’s data recovery capabilities, we stored (and deleted) five different file types – *.exe, *.jpeg, *.mp3, *.zip, and *.txt – to see how it could recover data from an SSD, an HDD, and a USB flash drive.įor the first test, I ran a basic scan on my 1TB Seagate 7200RPM to see what it could pull up. It saves the metadata of the files so if you ever want to recover them in the future Disk Drill will have a 100% success rate during the reconstruction process.

300+ supported filetypes including compressed files (ZIP, RAR, ISO, etc)Ī notable addition to Disk Drill’s feature list is the Recovery Vault data protection feature, which runs a service in the background of your machine which actively monitors your hard drives for changes or file deletions.

FAT (FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32), ExFAT, ext2, ext3, HFS+, and NTFS file system recovery.

Operating systems: Windows, OSX, iOS, Android.

Then, instead of letting me filter by filetype by typing it in I had to choose individually through an unintuitive tree system that was way more trouble to use than its worth. In order to designate which types of files I wanted to search for on my first scan, rather than having them right up front and obvious I had to dig into the (very limited) preferences menu to find how to scan by filetype only. Getting Disk Drill installed on our test system was quick, painless, and took less than three minutes from downloading on the CleverFiles site to having the software activated and ready for its first scan.ĭisk Drill is one of the more modern-looking data recovery applications I’ve used lately, however it suffers from the same problem as EaseUS in that its minimal design may actually be too minimal for the average user. Read on in our Disk Drill Recovery Pro review to find out what we liked and what we didn’t like.

Spoiler Alert: Disk Drill Recovery Pro is fast and easy to use but falls short of top rated products such as Data Rescue 5 which we reviewed here. But just because an application has been around a long time doesn’t always mean it’s doing a better job than the rest of the competition, so how does Disk Drill stack up in the rankings? Disk Drill is one of the oldest data recovery software options in the game, having been around in some form or another since 2010.

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