Category:	Utilities
Price:	High
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	10.9
Release Date:	2024-09-07
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.14.6
Vendor Name:	SysDev Laboratories LLC
Homepage:	www.ufsexplorer.com

Description:

Effective data recovery from RAID and other storage media

• Well-suited to tackle most common data loss issues

• Auto-detection of RAID parameters and prompt virtual assembly

• Smooth manual definition of various RAID configurations

• Support of specific RAID layouts and other storage technologies

• Extensive possibilities for creating disk images

• A variety of means for work with defective drives and RAID sets


Overview

UFS Explorer RAID Recovery is a versatile software instrument focusing particularly on data recovery from RAID and various RAID-based storages, like NAS and DAS. The program is capable of processing standard, nested and custom RAID patterns just as efficiently as individual disks and other electronic media, including USB flash drives and memory cards managed by various file systems of Windows, Linux and macOS. Along with typical RAID setups, the software supports specific configurations, including Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID and other popular storage technologies, like Linux LVM, mdadm, Windows Dynamic Disks, Storage Spaces and Apple Fusion Drive. A supported complex storage can be reconstructed automatically by the application with the help of on-disk metadata or assembled manually by the user and built in a virtual mode.

Furthermore, UFS Explorer RAID Recovery offers additional functionality to improve the effectiveness of work with RAID disks and other linear storages that bear the signs of hardware defects. The program allows defining parameters as to storage reading or creating a disk image with the possibility to configure read timeout, block size, etc. and specify rules for skipping damaged sectors. Maps of bad blocks produced during imaging, through the identification of a given pattern or created by compatible utilities can also be employed in the recovery process.


Key features

Efficient data recovery from RAID
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery allows working with RAID of various levels, including standard patterns (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1E, RAID 3, RAID 5, RAID 6, etc.), nested levels (RAID level 10, 50, 60, 50E, etc.) as well as custom RAID configurations via RDL or Runtime VIM. The software also supports specific RAID types, like Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Btrfs-RAID and RAID-Z which makes it an essential tool for most tasks related to data recovery from complex storage systems.

Support of various file systems
Besides RAID, the software offers direct access to the intact content and performs data recovery from other common types of storage media, including internal and external hard drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, etc. used in different environments: Windows (FAT/FAT32/exFAT, ReFS and NTFS), macOS (HFS+, APFS), Linux (Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, IBM JFS2) and BSD/Solaris (UFS/UFS2, ZFS).

Perfect for data recovery from NAS
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery supports popular NAS devices of such vendors as Drobo, Buffalo Technology (TeraStation, LinkStation), Synology, QNAP Systems, etc. and is an optimal solution for this type of storages. The software detects RAID metadata on NAS drives and uses it for automatic reconstruction of the storage. The array can also be assembled manually with the help of an embedded virtual RAID builder instrument.

Work with diverse storage technologies
Along with RAID-based storages, this specialized application offers the possibility to handle other storage technologies implemented in modern devices. Among them are Windows Dynamic Disks and Storage Spaces, Apple Software RAID and APFS-based Fusion Drive, Linux mdadm and LVM, virtual disks used by leading virtualization systems, including VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, QEMU and XEN, as well as a variety of disk image formats.

Extensive disk reading and imaging possibilities
UFS Explorer RAID Recovery allows choosing the method of data access and specifying a timeout for cases when reading fails due to an I/O device error. An advanced disk imager makes it possible to customize the imaged area and provides adjustable parameters such as read timeout, block size, direction, protocol and settings for the omission of defective blocks. The bad blocks encountered during the process of imaging get indicated in a map which can be utilized for other data recovery operations.

Adaptive RAID reconstruction
The software supports an adaptive reconstruction of redundant disk arrays (RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, etc. ) using bad sector maps generated for the components during the process of their imaging or through recognition of a given pattern and external ones created by other compatible tools. The program determines damaged data blocks on disks on the basis of their maps and can restore them using redundancy (parity information or a copy of data).