Stellar Data Recovery Technician Product Review

We have been evaluating many software which are useful for Infrastructure, System admin and Engineers recently we were looking for a data recovery solution and we got the chance to review the software Stellar Data Recovery Technician. In this review I will be sharing key features and what testing we have done with Stellar Data Recovery Technician. Also let me introduce about the company and the software before we jump in to testing and review.

Stellar Data Recovery is a leading information technology company that has revolutionized the concept of data recovery with smart, simple software and services. Stellar Data Recovery founded in 1993 and more than 2 million people across the globe is using this software.In 190 countries have trusted Stellar software solutions and have been benefited from numerous data loss situations by getting their precious data back.

Stellar Data Recovery Technician is a complete solution to recover lost data from your hard disks RAID partitions and external removable devices. It is a complete solution for all your data loss problems. The powerful scan engine of the software does a thorough scan of the selected storage device, shows a preview of files found during the scanning process and finally saves them to specified destination.Separate options to recover documents, folders, mails or multimedia files from the storage media is also available. It has different modules for users to repair photos and videos. The software has an additional feature as ‘drive monitor’ to check your drive’s performance and damage level before performing repair.

Stellar Data Recovery Technician allows you to save scan information to resume recovery process from the same point, at a later stage. It also has an option to create an image of a complete hard drive or volume/partition on the drive. This image file can be used to recover lost data even when the actual hard drive is not available.This is very helpful, in case there is a probability of RAID hard drive failure during the recovery process or the drive has lot of bad sectors.

How Stellar Data Recovery Technician Helps to Recover Data?

Stellar Data Recovery Technician powerful software to recover data from all types of Windows devices like PCs, laptops, RAID Servers etc. You can recover all your valuable documents, emails, photos, videos, and audio files, quickly and easily from your machine.

KEY HIGHLIGHTS

• Effortless recovery software for any data loss situation
• Recovers data from any Windows device and compatible storage media
• Recovers data from corrupt hard drives, lost partitions, and optical media
• Recovers virtually any type of file by using the file signature
• Add-on drive monitor utility and disk cloning for secure data recovery
• Recover Data from RAID 0, 5 and 6

We have tested Stellar Data Recovery Technician in test environment on data of windows 10 machine and raid recovery, also this tool helped to recover important data from a failed hard drive.
One of the user machine HDD is gone bad and we tried many tools and unable to recover any data, finally we open the HDD drive found that drive head is stuck and somehow we are able to move the head without any issue and we ran stellar recovery and we were able to recover all the data form HDD.
Note:- Moving head of hard drive is not advised option , any small mistake will damage the platter . If you have plan to do then very carefully do and do not touch inside the platter.

Perform Data Recovery

From the Console you can view the option Recover data repair Video, Monitor drive and Repair Photo.
Monitor disk is great feature by stellar to monitor the machine disk with following capabilities.
   •   Disk Status
   •   Smart Status
   •   Disk Partition
   •   Scan Disk
   •    Clone Disk

Open Stellar Data Recovery Technician and Select the Recover Data option. Depending upon requirement, you may also choose other options to perform drive monitor function or photo/video repair.

You can select the location to be scanned to for recover the data and Click on Scan

Next you can choose the what kind of data you are looking, you can choose customer files or select all for complete recovery and click next
Note:- Complete recovery may take rime based on the size of the data

Scanning will start and it will take a while to complete normal scanning in 3 stage process

Once it completes the recovery of data, there you can check individual folders. Also, you have option to check deleted list to view files. 
Also, if you want to run the deep scan you see the option available there to start

Perform Raid Recovery

From the home page of Stellar Data recovery Select Recover Data and From Next Page select Raid Recovery and scan. Stellar Data Recovery Technician effectively supports recovery of Raid 0, Raid 5 and Raid 6 .

In our scenario we have tested this on Raid -5 and we are able to successfully rebuild it.

From the console you can see all disk are listed and choose the disk was part of OS raid which is broken and add to right side column. Also You have to select other parameters like disk order, RAID Start Sector, Stripe/Block Size, Parity Order/Rotation, and Parity Repetition/Delay. If you’re not aware of these parameters, mention ‘Don’t know’ and check mark all possible options given in the drop-down menu.

Click on ‘Build RAID’ button to see the probable RAID construction. Select the appropriate RAID construction and click on the ‘Show Volume List’ button to go to the data recovery window.

Note:- Raid Building will take time based on the disk capacity and once completed you can see the raid has been completed rebuild .

The volumes in the chosen RAID construction will be listed, you can be select to perform various data recovery operations from that . If you want to select another RAID construction from the previous list, click the ‘Load Constructed RAID’ button. You can also create an altogether new RAID construction by clicking the ‘Reconstruct RAID’ button .

And after successful raid recovery I have verified that RAID-5 rebuild is completed by navigating to Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items ->Storage Spaces

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Conclusion

We have tested Stellar Data Recovery Technician and identified RAID and data recovery features are working perfectly. Data protection is very important for every organization and in case any failure happened, and when crucial data is lost you must need software like Stellar Data Recovery Technician handy for recovery. As per our experience Stellar Data Recovery Technician is very useful for recovery and it’s a 5 star rating software.