PhotoRec vs UFS Explorer
PhotoRec
cgsecurity.org
UFS Explorer
ufsexplorer.comSide by side
| Figure | PhotoRec | UFS Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $69.95/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 12 |
| Spec score · Data recovery software | 8.7 (#11) | 7.6 (#72) |
| Spec score · SD card recovery software | 8.6 (#8) | 7.0 (#46) |
| Spec score · Photo recovery software | 8.6 (#8) | 7.0 (#42) |
| Spec score · Photo Recovery Software | 8.3 (#12) | 6.9 (#42) |
| Spec score · SD Card Recovery Software | 8.2 (#16) | 6.8 (#49) |
| Spec score · File recovery tools | 8.4 (#4) | 6.8 (#11) |
| Founded | 1998 | 2008 |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Memory card recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Operating systems | Windows; Linux; macOS; DOS; FreeBSD; NetBSD; OpenBSD; Solaris; other Unix systems | Windows,macOS,Linux |
| RAID recovery | Yes | Yes |
| Recovery sources | hard disks; CD-ROMs; memory cards; USB memory drives; DD raw images; EnCase E01 images | internal and external hard drives,SSDs,USB flash drives,SD cards,memory cards,disk images,virtual disks,NAS devices and RAID systems |
Plans
UFS Explorer
- Standard Recovery Personal$69.95 a month
- Standard Recovery Commercial$139.95 a month
- Standard Recovery Corporate$209.95 a month
- RAID Recovery Personal$149.95 a month
- RAID Recovery Commercial$259.95 a month
- RAID Recovery Corporate$469.95 a month
- Network RAID Personal$229.95 a month
- Network RAID Commercial$484.95 a month
- Network RAID Corporate$839.95 a month
- Professional Recovery 1 seat$699.95 a month
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.
UFS Explorer
UFS Explorer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.