PhotoRec vs RollBack Rx
PhotoRec
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horizondatasys.comSide by side
| Figure | PhotoRec | RollBack Rx |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $83.90/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 12 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.7 (#11) | 7.9 (#56) |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Operating systems | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems | Windows 11,Windows 10,Windows Server |
| RAID recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Recovery sources | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images | hard drives,partitions,whole drives,snapshots,RAID arrays |
| Support | Users can seek help on the PhotoRec forum, send suggestions to the developer, or submit a bug report. | The maintenance package includes unlimited technical support, software updates, and upgrades while active. |
Plans
RollBack Rx
- RollBack Rx Pro$83.90 a month
- RollBack Server$199 a month
- RollBack Rx Professional — educational pricing, 250–499 PCs$37, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — educational pricing, 100–249 PCs$43, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — educational pricing, 25–99 PCs$48, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — educational pricing, 5–24 PCs$49, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — commercial pricing, 250–499 PCs$50, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — commercial pricing, 100–249 PCs$53, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — commercial pricing, 25–99 PCs$56, paid once
- RollBack Rx Professional — commercial pricing, 5–24 PCs$59, 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.
RollBack Rx
RollBack Rx has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.