Complete feature comparison of UFS Explorer products
This page provides a detailed comparison of all UFS Explorer software products in one place. It brings together the full set of features, supported storage technologies and technical capabilities available across the editions, allowing you to better understand their functional differences and select the solution that best fits your requirements.
The tables below cover both groups of UFS Explorer software: the classic editions, designed for general data recovery tasks, and the professional products, intended for specialists in data recovery and digital forensics. Brief versions of these tables are also available on the corresponding product category pages.
Classic UFS Explorer products
UFS Explorer editions |
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| Data recovery: | |||
| Data recovery from internal and external hard drives | |||
| Data recovery from USB flash drives and memory cards | |||
| Data recovery from disk images and virtual disks | |||
| Data recovery from corrupted file systems | |||
| Data recovery from Windows file systems (FAT/FAT32/exFAT/NTFS) | |||
| Data recovery from the ReFS/ReFS3 file system | |||
| Data recovery from macOS file systems (HFS+, APFS) | |||
| Data recovery from Linux file systems (Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, UFS/UFS2, XFS, ReiserFS, JFS, Btrfs) | |||
| Data recovery from the ZFS file system | |||
| Data recovery by known content | |||
| IntelliRAW™ data recovery with custom rules | |||
| Data access: | |||
| Immediate access to files and folders | |||
| Immediate access to undamaged file systems (pre-recovery file system analysis) | |||
| Opening custom block devices (SCSI, CD/DVD, RAID, etc.) | |||
| File preview | |||
| Supported technologies: | |||
| LVM thin provisioning | |||
| Full support of NT LDM, MDADM, MS Storage Spaces | |||
| Simple (spanned) volumes of NT LDM, MDADM, MS Storage Spaces | |||
| BitLocker, encrypted APFS | |||
| QEMU, XEN (QCOW/QCOW2) | |||
| VirtualBox (VDI) | |||
| VMware VMDK (sparse, flat), Hyper-V (VHD/VHDX) | |||
| R-Studio image files (RDR) | |||
| Apple Disk Image files (DMG) | |||
| RAID support: | |||
| Support of standard RAID patterns: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 3, Span | |||
| Support of RAID-on-RAID (RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, etc.) | |||
| Support of "stripe"-volumes with ZFS and RAID-Z (RAID-Z, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3) | |||
| Adaptive reconstruction of standard and nested RAID using maps of bad sectors | |||
| Saving and restoring RAID configurations | |||
| Support of custom "virtual image" files of Runtime Software | |||
| Automatic recognition of known RAID metadata | |||
| Automatic assembly of spanned volumes | |||
| Support of custom RAID configurations through RAID Definition Language | |||
| Data recovery from Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology SHR, Btrfs-RAID | |||
| Work with defective disks: | |||
| Drive reading configuration | |||
| Advanced disk imaging tool | |||
| Creation of a defects map during imaging | |||
| Support of disk images instead of original disks (including ones of third-party software) | |||
| Direct (network) access to disks connected through DeepSpar Disk Imager | |||
| Creating "dynamic" (pattern-based) maps of bad blocks for disk images | |||
| Software processing of defective areas on disk images with the help of bad sector maps created by UFS Explorer or third-party programs (DeepSpar DDI, ACE Lab PC-3000 and others) | |||
| Additional functions: | |||
| Hexadecimal viewer | |||
| Analysis of partition allocation with hexadecimal viewer | |||
| Drive sharing over LAN | |||
| Connecting to a shared storage | |||
| Interface: | |||
| Zoomable interface | |||
| Option of pausing scan | |||
| Helpful prompts | |||
| Operating systems for installation: | |||
| Windows | |||
| Linux | |||
| macOS | |||
| Personal License: | $69.95 |
$149.95 |
$209.95 |
| Commercial license: | $139.95 |
$259.95 |
$484.95 |
| Corporate license: | $209.95 |
$469.95 |
$839.95 |
Professional UFS Explorer products
UFS Explorer editions |
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| Data recovery: | |||
| Recovery of lost and deleted data via the file system metadata analysis | |||
| Data recovery by known content, including with custom IntelliRAW™ rules | |||
| Work with internal and external storage media (hard drives, memory cards, USB sticks, etc.) | |||
| Work with disk images and virtual disks | |||
| Reconstruction of corrupted volumes | |||
| Data recovery from NTFS, FAT, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS/ReFS3 (Windows) | |||
| Data recovery from HFS+, APFS (macOS) | |||
| Data recovery from Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, Extended format XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, Btrfs, F2FS (Linux) | |||
| Data recovery from ZFS, UFS, UFS2, Adaptec UFS, big-endian UFS (BSD/Solaris) | |||
| Data recovery from VMFS, VMFS6 (VMware) | |||
| Data access: | |||
| Immediate access to undamaged volumes (pre-recovery file system examination) | |||
| Opening custom block devices (SCSI, CD/DVD, RAID, etc.) | |||
| File preview | |||
| Data access on QZFS (QNAP QuTS hero) | |||
| Data access on WAFL versions 2 to 4 (NetAPP ONTAP) | |||
| Data access on HFS (macOS) | |||
| Data access on NWFS, NSS, NSS64 (Novell NetWare) | |||
| Data access on HPFS (IBM/Microsoft) | |||
| Data access on Legacy JFS1, JFS2 (AIX) | |||
| Data access on EAFS, HTFS, DTFS (Xinous OpenServer) | |||
| Data access on VxFS4, VxFS6, VxFS7 (Veritas Storage Foundation, HP-UX, etc.) | |||
| Data access on HIK, WFS, DHFS, BKFL, MDFS, DVFE, MirageFS, RsfsFS, TangoFS, TPFS and other vendor-specific CCTV/DVR file systems (without decoding videos into a supported delivery format) | |||
| Data access on NxFS (Urive) | |||
| Supported storage technologies: | |||
| mdadm, LVM, LVM 2, NT LDM, Apple Software RAID, APFS-based Fusion Drive, JMicron (JMS561, etc.), OpenBSD BIO RAID, Intel Matrix, DDF1 (LSI, Dell, Intel, etc.), Silicon Image, DDF2 (Adaptec, etc.) | |||
| MS Storage Spaces, Apple Core Storage, LVM/LVM 2 with Thin Provisioning | |||
| Virtual disks of VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, Parallels and others | |||
| Simple disk images, forensic disk images (non-encrypted E01, Ex01, AFF4, etc.), Apple Disk Images (DMG), specialized disk image formats (DeepSpar DDI, R-Studio and others) | |||
| BitLocker, FileVault 2, APFS encryption, LUKS, TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt, OpenBSD BIO, eCryptFS, etc. | |||
| Drobo BeyondRAID, Synology Hybrid RAID, Synology RAID-F1, ZFS RAID-Z, Btrfs-RAID | |||
| Automated tiering of QNAP (Qtier) | |||
| SAN storage arrays (Dell EqualLogic, IBM StorWize, HPE MSA, Dell PowerVault, NetApp, etc.) | |||
| SAN virtual volumes (reconstruction using an external data map) | |||
| SAN virtual volumes (immediate access to the content using an external plugin) | |||
| WD My Cloud Home volumes | |||
| Microsoft data deduplication | |||
| SCSI/SAS-drives with non-standard sector sizes | |||
| Basic RAID support: | |||
| Automated RAID metadata detection and assembly | |||
| Set of tools for manual RAID definition | |||
| Standard RAID patterns (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 3, Span, etc.) | |||
| Nested RAID (RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60, etc.) | |||
| Custom RAID layouts through RAID Definition Language | |||
| Saving and editing RAID configurations | |||
| Virtual decomposition of assembled RAID | |||
| Adaptive reconstruction of standard and nested RAID using maps of bad sectors | |||
| Work with disk images, virtual disks: | |||
| VMware (VMDK), Hyper-V (VHD/VHDX), QEMU/XEN (QCOW/QCOW2), VirtualBox (VDI), Parallels (PVM) | |||
| Simple disk images, Apple Disk Images (DMG), disk images of DeepSpar DDI, R-Studio image files (RDR), custom "virtual image" files of Runtime software, internal sparse format (SDLSP) | |||
| Non-encrypted forensic disk images (EnCase, FTK disk imager, etc.) | |||
| Decryption of encrypted storages: | |||
| BitLocker, BitLocker To Go, FileVault 2, APFS encryption, LUKS (1, 2), TrueCrypt, VeraCrypt, OpenBSD BIO | |||
| eCryptFS | |||
| Encrypted VMDK virtual disks (VMware) | |||
| Encrypted DMG and sparsebundle files (macOS) | |||
| JMS561 bridge chip encryption (WD MyBook, etc.) | |||
| Encrypted disks from devices with Symwave SW6316, Initio 1607E, JMicron JMS538, Oxford OXUF943SE bridge chips (WD MyBook/MyPassport) | |||
| Work with defective media: | |||
| Use of disk images instead of original media (including third-party formats) | |||
| Configurable drive reading with the possibility to skip OS requests and proceed directly to imaging | |||
| Read-once disk access (on-demand imaging) | |||
| Embedded multi-pass disk imager | |||
| Defects map creation during imaging | |||
| Entropy map production during imaging | |||
| Conversion of used file system space to a mask | |||
| Creating "dynamic" (pattern-based) maps of bad blocks for disk images | |||
| Imaging of occupied storage space on the basis of a file system map | |||
| Software processing of defective areas on disk images with the help of bad sector maps created by UFS Explorer or third-party programs (DeepSpar DDI, ACE Lab PC-3000 and others) | |||
| Controlled network access to disks connected through DeepSpar Disk Imager | |||
| Interaction with MRT Data Explorer and control over disk imaging performed by MRT solutions | |||
| Asynchronous management of imaging tasks initiated by UFS Explorer or other supported imaging solutions | |||
| Built-in S.M.A.R.T. monitor for drives | |||
| Additional functions: | |||
| Auxiliary options for work with files (preview, search, sorting, filtering and others) | |||
| Obtaining information about the location of file/folder fragments and object descriptor, direct access to their on-disk positions | |||
| Assortment of tools for low-level data analysis (field highlighting, data interpreter, parity calculator, parallel search, data comparison, reverse data address translation and others) | |||
| Means for editing hexadecimal content | |||
| Opening a spanned or split storage from a set of individual chunks | |||
| Prompt access to the virtual disk/disk image content located within another virtual storage (virtual machine, RAID, etc.) | |||
| Direct low-level interaction with SCSI devices using raw SCSI commands | |||
| Direct low-level interaction with (S)ATA devices using raw ATA commands (including through supported USB bridge chips) | |||
| Sending custom SCSI commands using an in-built SCSI commander tool | |||
| Secure data erasure (overwriting with zeroes, including by an entropy map) | |||
| Remote access to native and third-party iSCSI targets | |||
| Sharing assembled volumes to iSCSI clients (initiators) via an embedded iSCSI target server | |||
| Mounting assembled volumes as a local virtual SCSI disks for further access from the OS (through iSCSI) | |||
| Reporting functions: | |||
| Basic list of files and folders in different formats | |||
| Dynamic HTML report | |||
| Extended report of files and folders with the possibility of file integrity control (hash value, metadata test) | |||
| Report on the allocation of files fragments | |||
| Expandability via additional plugins: | |||
| Data recovery plugin for Dell EqualLogic | |||
| Data recovery plugin for HP StorageWorks EVA | |||
| Data recovery plugin for HPE MSA | |||
| Data recovery plugin for HPE 3PAR StoreServ | |||
| Data recovery plugin for Infiniti SAN | |||
| Data recovery plugin for IBM Storwize | |||
| Operating systems for installation: | |||
| Windows | |||
| Linux | |||
| macOS | |||
| Licensing conditions: | |||
| Perpetual license with 1 year of free updates | |||
| Limited-term license (1 year) bound to a single workstation | |||
| Limited-term transferrable license (1 year) | |||
| Commercial license: |
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