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#Stellar phoenix photo recovery activation key mac license key#

I made things harder for it again, because I wanted to see what I’d get. Now onto the bread and butter of this software: recovering photos and videos from SD cards.

What the software found is data gibberish there were no MP3 or GIF files on that drive I expected as much, because I know specialized, professional-grade software is needed for this, but I gave it a shot because who knows, someday we may be able to buy affordable software that can do this. Indeed, after several hours of checking, Stellar Phoenix’s software couldn’t find any recoverable files on the drive. While this is fine for the Drobo and simple to use for Drobo owners, it also means that data recovery software typically can’t get anything off a drive from a Drobo drive set. I put it to a test right away, on what I deemed the hardest task for data recovery software: seeing if it could get anything at all from one of the drives I pulled out of one of my Drobo units.Īs you may (or may not) know, Data Robotics, the company that makes the Drobo, uses their own, proprietary version of RAID called BeyondRAID.

#Stellar phoenix photo recovery activation key mac license key#

In the interest of full disclosure, you should know they gave me a license key for their paid version of the software. I wanted to see how it compared with what I have. When someone from Stellar Phoenix contacted me to see if I’d be interested in looking at their Photo Recovery software, I agreed. I have also purchased data recovery software, just in case something goes bad: I own both Disk Warrior and Data Rescue.

I keep local and remote backups and I use hardware that writes my data redundantly onto sets of drives, so that I don’t lose anything if one of the drives goes down. Having lost photos and videos in the past, I am fairly cautious about my media these days.