Instead of restoring directly from the faulty drive (and risking further damage and data loss), users can restore data from a disk image. These features may even be a deal maker for the right users.įor example, Disk Drill’s ability to create byte-to-byte backups is a boon to users with failing drives. Disk Drill does not currently provide phone support.Īside from a software’s raw ability to restore data, there are features we consider that can greatly improve user experience. MiniTool does also provide an extensive knowledge base on their website, as well as helpdesk support, live chat, and even phone support for customers. The Cleverfiles website provides well-written how-to articles that feature Disk Drill alongside other good tools, simultaneously improving their reputation and helping them rank high on Google. In terms of online market share and exposure, Cleverfiles is much more prolific than MiniTool even if both developers have been around for a long time.
Both developers publish their changelogs online. As a result, Power Data Recovery gets updated roughly every 6 months.įortunately, the latest Windows release as of this writing is supported by both apps anyway.
On the other hand, MiniTool is currently developing a suite of different tools – including a partition manager, video editor, downloader, and more. This makes a decent case for MiniTool for very, very specific users.Ĭleverfiles focuses development entirely on Disk Drill, which means that they update their app constantly (every 3 months). ACCDB files, which Disk Drill doesn’t support at all. MiniTool did much better recovering our documents, recognizing even non-Windows-based file types like. MiniTool also doesn’t support any file types that Disk Drill doesn’t, so we can’t even justify it on a case-to-case basis. Unfortunately, MiniTool struggled even more with recovering our videos than it did with our photos. Our video recovery challenge produced similar results. Even then, the results weren’t consistent across the file types MiniTool did recognize. In comparison, MiniTool recognized less than half of the same RAW image files we tested with Disk Drill. The rest were almost completely restored without a struggle.
The results of our findings were pretty… One-sided, to say the least.įirst up, raw photo recovery – who did it better? Out of 37 RAW file types, Disk Drill only missed 3. This section breaks down exactly how much and what kind of data users can expect to restore using Disk Drill and MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
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