DoYourData Recovery vs R-Linux

DoYourData Recovery scans storage devices for files lost through deletion, formatting, partition loss, drive crashes, logical errors, or RAW drives. It supports hard drives, external drives, USB drives, memory cards, formatted partitions, PCs, HDDs, SSDs, cameras, RAID, and servers. Listed file systems include NTFS/NTFS+, exFAT, FAT12/16/32, ReFS, and EXT2/3/4. The software can recover documents, images, videos, audio, emails, archives, and other file types, and provides file preview. The free version can scan and preview recoverable files and save up to 1GB; the listed free plan is for Windows. Paid options include $49 a month, $69 a year, or $89, paid once, each as a one-time payment with no auto-renewal and covering two PCs. The Technician Lifetime License is $499 as a one-time purchase for 100+ PCs and business usage. The vendor says recovery is read-only and will not overwrite original lost data. Separate products are listed for Mac and iPhone; iPhone recovery is available for Windows and Mac.

R-Linux is a free file-recovery utility for Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4 file systems, with host versions for Linux and Windows. It can recover files after virus attacks, power failures, partition reformatting or deletion, and from disks with bad sectors. Recovery sources include hard disks, CDs, DVDs, floppy disks, Compact Flash cards, USB drives, ZIP drives, Memory Sticks, and other removable media. Memory-card recovery and file preview are supported, but RAID recovery is not. IntelligentScan can search devices with unknown file systems for known file types. R-Linux can create compressed, split, and password-protected disk or partition images, scanning while images are created; compressed images work with R-Drive Image. Bad-sector disks can be copied to an image for processing. Recovered files can be saved to any host-accessible disk, including network disks. Help documentation lists Linux mdadm and LVM/LVM2 volumes. The Linux version requires a kernel 2.6-or-newer RPM or DEB distribution, X.Org X server 1.7.6 or newer, and root privileges.