PhotoRec vs R-Undelete
PhotoRec
cgsecurity.org
R-Undelete
r-undelete.comSide by side
| Figure | PhotoRec | R-Undelete |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $54.99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.7 (#11) | 8.8 (#7) |
| File systems | The page lists FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+ among file systems from which PhotoRec can recover files. | Paid R-Undelete supports FAT, exFAT, NTFS, NTFS5 and ReFS volumes, including volumes visible to the Windows host. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Memory card recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Operating systems | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems | Windows 11,10,8.1,8,7,Vista,XP,2000 |
| RAID recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Recovery sources | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images | HDD,SSD,USB/NVMe storage devices,memory cards,virtual disks,undamaged RAIDs,Windows Storage Spaces |
| Support | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. | Technical support is advertised as available 24/7 with an average response under four hours. |
Plans
R-Undelete
- R-Undelete HomeFree
- R-Undelete$54.99 a month
- R-Undelete HomeFree
- R-Undelete$54.99, paid once
In their own words
PhotoRec
PhotoRec is a free file recovery program for retrieving lost videos, documents, archives, and pictures from storage media and disk images. It searches the underlying data instead of relying on the file system, which can help after file-system damage or reformatting. It recognizes more than 480 file extensions across about 300 file families, and listed file systems include FAT, NTFS, exFAT, ext2/ext3/ext4, and HFS+.
Supported sources include hard disks, CD-ROMs, memory cards, USB drives, raw disk images, and EnCase E01 images. PhotoRec runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, DOS, several BSD systems, Solaris, and other Unix systems. It accesses the recovery drive or card in read-only mode; recovered files should go to a different partition. The portable download runs after extracting its archive, without an installer. QPhotoRec provides a graphical interface, while PhotoRec can also run from scripts or batch files with command-line options. The maker says it usually cannot recover original filenames and does not work well with ReiserFS.
R-Undelete
R-Undelete has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.