Hetman RAID Recovery vs ReclaiMe Free RAID Recovery

Hetman RAID Recovery reconstructs inaccessible RAID arrays and storage devices so files can be recovered after failures, formatting, or metadata corruption. It works with hardware and software RAID, NAS and DAS devices, and server storage. The software can identify array details such as disk order, stripe size, offsets, and parity layout; a manual RAID Constructor is available when metadata is incomplete or damaged. Supported configurations include JBOD and RAID 0, 1, 1E, 4, 5, 5E, 5EE, 6, 10, 01, 50, 51, 60, and 61. It also supports structures including Linux MD RAID, LVM, Windows Storage Spaces, ZFS, Btrfs, AppleRAID, CoreStorage, and APFS multi-disk containers. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and can examine physical disks, disk images, virtual disks, and supported remote block devices over SSH. Recovery is reconstructed virtually without changing source disks. The trial can scan, browse, and preview detected files, but saving recovered data requires a license. Licenses are perpetual, with limits that vary by plan.

ReclaiMe Free RAID Recovery is a free Windows utility for identifying RAID configuration parameters from physical disks, USB-connected disks, disk-image files, hardware RAID sets, software RAID sets, and NAS disk sets. It supports RAID 0, RAID 5, RAID 10, RAID 6, RAID5E, and RAID 5 with delayed parity. The tool determines details such as disk order, block size, and start offset. After analysis, users can create an array copy, save the parameters, or use compatible recovery software to access the data. Transfer instructions are provided for R-Studio, File Scavenger, UFS Explorer, and Zero Assumption Recovery. Named NAS examples include QNAP, NETGEAR, Synology, and Buffalo. It can create and open disk images. The software does not recover files individually and requires a multi-disk RAID array. Each member disk, including missing members in specified RAID levels, must contain 10–20 GB for analysis. RAID 0 requires every member disk; RAID 5 can be analyzed with one missing member, while RAID 6 cannot be analyzed with two missing members.