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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Important Checklist Before Buying Mac Data Recovery Software

Data loss implies the loss of important information from any storage media such as hard drive, pen drive, DVD, memory cards etc. There are many cases when data is lost from the memory of the system due to corruption, deletion & formatting.
But, at the same time there are plenty of useful software’s through which we can easily recover our lost data.
Today, in this post I will share with you some of the main reasons why you need data recovery software and what are the steps, which you should take before buying the best data recovery software for your Mac OS X.


How Data recovery software helps you?
Data recovery is not as simple as it may appear. To make perfect data recovery software requires great deal of in-depth knowledge and time. Additionally, it requires various complex algorithms of computer science to work simultaneously.

So, if you are the one who have lost their data and are currently looking for the best data recovery software, then you need to know the below mentioned points before buying a data recovery software.

1. Have your checked your requirement first:
The software for which you are going to buy, there are many requirements that need to be completed. Each of the data recovery software has own requirements.
But, you need to check whether the software is really capable of recovering your lost data or not.
Home User:
If you are a home user who has lost the data from Mac, then you need to ask the below mentioned questions:
Is the software support to the latest version of Mac (i.e. Yosemite?)
Can the software recover deleted files from database, emails?
Can it recover Time Machine drive?
Can it recover from password-protected drive?
Can it restore files from an unmounted drive?

Small Company:
If you have a small company of employee size (6-10), then you need better recovery software. In addition with the home user requirements, you need to ask the below mentioned questions to yourself:-
Can the data recovery software run on multiple machines?
Can it provide customer support?
Can the software provide advanced data recovery option?

Big Enterprise:
Big enterprise, have hundreds to thousands of computers and hence their recovery requirement are too high. For this, you can either select a top data recovery company, which allows you to recover lost data from unlimited number of systems.
Stellar Phoenix Mac Data recovery software is one such software, which offers technician licenses to perform recovery of lost data.

Checkpoint 2:
Can software recover deleted or lost files?
You should also need to check whether the software is able to recover the deleted files or not? If the data recovery from the software is possible, then you need to be careful while recovering the data, as sometimes it affects the data integrity.
Lost data can be in any of the form, like image, video etc. Therefore, it is important to check and see whether the software is able to recover the files for all file formats or not.

Checkpoint 3:-
Can data recovery software support storage devices?
Storage devices are the devices, which are primarily used to store data. Good data recovery software provides support for all the storage media including the internal as well as external attached devices.

For example, a simple Windows based hard drive provide supports to the NTFS, FAT etc. file system, while a Mac based hard drive support only HFS and HFS+.
Mac data recovery software provides support for all the major and commonly used storage and media file systems.

Checkpoint 4:
1. It should be easy to use and install
2. Provide compatibility with all the operating system
3. Read as much reviews of the software you are about to buy.
4. Data recovery company should have sound refund policy in case software doesn’t perform as mentioned

Final Conclusion: - These are the final checklists that you need to know before buying the best data recovery software. If you know any others; please let me know them via comment section.