It also has SMART monitoring and after you activate that feature, there are little icons in the menu bar for each drive, showing its status.
#Disk drill pro for mac review android
Surrounding it is a statement that says, “The New Disk Drill – Recover, protect, visualize your data & clean up your Mac”Īs a full-featured app it can also create bootable drives, recover data from iOS and Android file systems, look for duplicates, and clean up your Mac. The app has an easy to use GUI, when you launch it you are greeted by the image of a smiling man, with glowing goggles, in a lab coat. As a side note, when I asked for a bit of background on the company, this is their description, " CleverFiles, the Atlanta-based tech company operating as a brand of 508 Software, LLC, is a social enterprise with proven knowledge of data management and operations, and versatile connections in the non-profit world. Empowering thousands of users with unified data recovery and protection technologies, CleverFiles also sponsors various non-IT charity events in the area." So, consider yourself informed. So, after exhausting all our other options without much success, this seemed like the perfect time. We had already downloaded the app and installed it, but hadn’t had time to try it yet. The invitation from CleverFiles was to test Disk Drill Pro 3 for Mac OS. But it piqued our curiosity when an invitation to test an app we had never heard of had arrived in our inbox. Well that was until we tried the newly released Disk Drill 3.Īs reviewers we receive a lot of invitations to consider new products for review. So, I was pretty much resigned to losing the missing images forever. I knew the information for those missing image files, such as file type, size, names, and dates, but nothing I tried could find them, and while some recovery apps did manage to find some files, most of the time they wouldn’t open. Unfortunately, there were a slew of important images, DNG files that were still missing. So, I started to recreate the dataset, and later with the help of an offsite drive that hadn’t been corrupted but was out-of-date, I was able to slowly rebuild the dataset. I also discovered that even with a robust backup strategy, that there were still plenty of problems. Slowly, slowly, through comparisons of data, using Lightroom CC to check imported files for errors, I began to figure out which data was missing, corrupted, or what data appeared to be sound, but were in reality corrupted. It’s a sinking feeling to discover empty folders of what were once digital image files. It took Disk Warrior over a day to work on the disc, but at least in the end it mounted, with lots of folders of either corrupted data, misplaced data, or folders that were empty. To repair the disk initially, at their suggestion I used Disk Warrior 5, one of our favorite and most respected tools, and it was able to correct much of the damage, so that the RAID drives would mount, albeit with a lot of missing data, and corruption, but still it was impressive to even have the mirror operational.
It was comforting to know that despite the corruption, the drives themselves weren’t at fault.
The moral is that serious enterprise level drives are worth the extra expense, especially when used in a NAS or RAID. We have run numerous diagnostics and certifications on these drives and have yet to find a single error. The drives themselves were Enterprise Level Seagate Drives, which have proven rock solid, and superb performers. So, their advice was to try to repair the volumes to get it mounted again. We reached out to SoftRAID tech support, sent them the logs, and the issue weren’t with SoftRAID, but with a corrupted drive (the drive connected to the external SATA unit) that corrupted the rest of the mirror. We did another restart, thinking it was just a glitch, but instead now the RAID wouldn’t mount at all. The RAID was created using SoftRAID 5.5.5, and suddenly after a computer restart, the RAID gave a warning error. To provide some background the RAID was a combination internal and external drive with an older MacPro tower, with 2 of the internal drive bays used for the RAID, and one of two other discs were rotating offsite drives that rotated out of an external E-Sata Firmtek 5 Bay enclosure. 6TBs of files, backed up, or corrupted, with one of the backup drives corrupted, and no easy access to the offsite access, this was an IT crash from hell. Great, just what I needed during a busy week. To make matters worse, even after other tools were able to get the RAID up and running, we were missing tons of files. Recently, we had a major data crash, a 6TB RAID configured as a multi-disc mirror became corrupted, and since it was a mirror, it dutifully duplicated the corrupted data.
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