Data Recovery Hardware

Clarifications

Diskmaster Pro formerly known as EMAK is great hardware used for data recovery.

http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data-recovery-hardware-tool.htm

Salvation Data based out of China offers top of the line tools for hardware level recovery as well as platter transfer kits. Definetly not for normal IT people and do not even let a non Tech see these items. But for about 5000 US you can build the base for a professional recovery lab.

has been dead for awhile and now has been brought forth to face the world (and eat our brains). :-)

you are correct, data recovery hardware is usually not hardware alone, it integrates and works with data recovery software. With the hardware, the software and application is able to work in a deeper level of data recovery and make all the operation of data recovery secured. Hardware is also used to encrypt the program and it becomes more stable to work.

only some data recovery hardware which is used to repair drives physically are pure hardware. like you need to use some data recovery hardware to replace heads or platters.

http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/, this websitte does explain a lot about the difference between data recovery hardware and software.

as i knew, there are mainly two data recovery hardware manufacturers: SalvationDATA Technology and ACE LAB.
salvationdata has following tools:
Data Copy King
Flash Doctor
Data Compass
File Extractor
HD Doctor
HD HPE PRO
ACE:
PC-3000 for Windows UDMA
Data Extractor UDMA
PC-3000 for SCSI
Data Extractor SCSI
PC-3000 Flash
PC-3000 Portable

personally i prefer to data compass..

And here i thought that International Zombie Day had long since passed.

it is indeed an old post. but as the time past, there are a lot disk image hardware emerged, like DATA COPY KING from salvationdata, supersonix from logicube, disk imager from deepspar etc. they are popular recently.