RapidSpar Demo Program

So this device will tell you ahead of time if the heads are good or not? That could be extremely beneficial to us and our customers as I don't really know the tell-tale signs, and if it would tell us before we even start the process of our recovery we could price it a lot faster for our clients and, more importantly, send it out without making things worse for the data recovery guys.
 
Krynn72 said:
So this device will tell you ahead of time if the heads are good or not? That could be extremely beneficial to us and our customers as I don't really know the tell-tale signs, and if it would tell us before we even start the process of our recovery we could price it a lot faster for our clients and, more importantly, send it out without making things worse for the data recovery guys.
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Yeah you connect up the drives, launch the Assistant software... then you put in some drive information, like Form Factor, Serial, Diagnosis, etc. Once it's done checking out the drive and "optimizing" it to work on, at the bottom you'll see each head and the % of how healthy each is.

This video they put out shows it better...

 
Hello Demo testers!

My name is Vlad and I am a member of DeepSpar team here in Ottawa. Thanks to your support, our engineers and developers are working around the clock hunting down occasional bugs and implementing new features to make your life easier.

Meanwhile I am here for you. I will administer logistics for beta programs, communicate news and listen to your critics and complements so we can deliver the best product and provide the most efficient support.
 
Signed up for the program and am looking forward to testing this device out. I have a few customers' drives that I couldn't Image previously. I am excited to see how many of them RapidSpar can recover. We also have a couple RAID array's with 2 bad drives. I'm hoping to image one or more of the bad drives to attempt a rebuild of the lost array.
 
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Here is a real-world view of what the optimization can do. This was only on 5 GB of data... with that little amount, I honestly didn't think there would be much difference. And note this is on a healthy drive. But it cut the time by more than half.

Got a handful more drives to do, and I'll be sending this guy along on Thursday.
 
AlexanderCS said:
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Here is a real-world view of what the optimization can do. This was only on 5 GB of data... with that little amount, I honestly didn't think there would be much difference. And note this is on a healthy drive. But it cut the time by more than half.

Got a handful more drives to do, and I'll be sending this guy along on Thursday.
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What were you running the RapidSpar up against for speed comparison?
 
AlexanderCS said:
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Here is a real-world view of what the optimization can do. This was only on 5 GB of data... with that little amount, I honestly didn't think there would be much difference. And note this is on a healthy drive. But it cut the time by more than half.

Got a handful more drives to do, and I'll be sending this guy along on Thursday.
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I'm not sure that this is a valid result. With RapidSpar, the log records the sectors already imaged so that you don't have to read them a second time. So, the second time you run it, the program probably just taking 40.8s to re-verify the imaged files. I'm don't think there really is anything to optimize based on a healthy drive and it should image pretty much at the same speed before and after the optimization. I'll leave it to the RapidSpar team to confirm this.
 
Luke is correct. On the built-in SSD RapidSpar keeps a sector map for every project where it records which sectors it already imaged over to the Target drive. Whenever RSA (the client software) sends a request to read some particular sectors, RapidSpar first checks the sector map to see if those sectors need to be imaged. If they do, it will image them to the Target. If they don't, it won't do anything to save the Source from unnecessary stress. So the secondary 40 second time is just how long it took to confirm with the sector map that all requested sectors have already been imaged over. If you restart your project, you will clear the sector map.

The RapidNebula optimization process won't make any difference on healthy areas as Luke mentioned. There isn't anything that can be optimized for healthy drives. The optimizations are entirely about how it will process bad areas on the drive.
 
Well, egg on my face. I'm sitting here naively thinking "Wow, this really speeds things up!"

Oops.

Regardless of my own ignorance, I still think it's a heck of a device.
 
Hello everyone.
We are in the middle of rotation at the moment, so those who have been notified will get their units shortly. Meanwhile I would like to share a good animation we created some time ago, where we explain the difference of data handling between software and RapidSpar.
 
I just received my unit today, and after some quick troubleshooting, got it up and running lickity split (BAD Emisoft.)

So I threw my first drive through its paces. First drive was an Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 2.5" hard drive. The drive experienced a rapid failure, which appeared to be mechanical. The client had realized a failure had started so attempted to back up their photos, which seemed to have caused further issues. The client did not want to pay the cost of a specialist (Sorry lcoughey) and instead accepted whatever I could get, was it. Through 73 bad blocks (multiple session failure) plus more weak blocks cropping up, I'd ran ddrescue and got all but 9 of their photos and all their documents and such. I had already applied for this demo, but didn't want to hold my breath for a hardware failure, so the client was okay with this.

I couldn't quite pin what the issue was, but the drive was making abnormal sounds. RapidSpar reported the head was 100%, which threw my suspicion out the window. I used RapidSpar to specifically target the files I wanted, and sure enough, no issues. At all. On the contrary. Pulled all the photos, and they all open fine. The client will be tickled to get these back.

For giggles, I did a full photo recovery just to test and oddly, RapidSpar didn't even struggle. If it weren't for SMART and the odd sounds coming from the drive, (And a bit of permanent marker) I would have thought I had the wrong drive. 88GB in 53m, no errors.

First attempt: Positive. Will try another drive tomorrow. Tomorrow's seems like a firmware issue, so we'll see what happens.

Edit: I wish the logs were a bit more descriptive. It pretty much treated the drive like nothing was wrong, so I can't even tell if it struggled to recover anything.
 
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I just received my unit today, and after some quick troubleshooting, got it up and running lickity split (BAD Emisoft.)

So I threw my first drive through its paces. First drive was an Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 2.5" hard drive. The drive experienced a rapid failure, which appeared to be mechanical. The client had realized a failure had started so attempted to back up their photos, which seemed to have caused further issues. The client did not want to pay the cost of a specialist (Sorry lcoughey) and instead accepted whatever I could get, was it. Through 73 bad blocks (multiple session failure) plus more weak blocks cropping up, I'd ran ddrescue and got all but 9 of their photos and all their documents and such. I had already applied for this demo, but didn't want to hold my breath for a hardware failure, so the client was okay with this.

I couldn't quite pin what the issue was, but the drive was making abnormal sounds. RapidSpar reported the head was 100%, which threw my suspicion out the window. I used RapidSpar to specifically target the files I wanted, and sure enough, no issues. At all. On the contrary. Pulled all the photos, and they all open fine. The client will be tickled to get these back.

For giggles, I did a full photo recovery just to test and oddly, RapidSpar didn't even struggle. If it weren't for SMART and the odd sounds coming from the drive, (And a bit of permanent marker) I would have thought I had the wrong drive. 88GB in 53m, no errors.

First attempt: Positive. Will try another drive tomorrow. Tomorrow's seems like a firmware issue, so we'll see what happens.

Edit: I wish the logs were a bit more descriptive. It pretty much treated the drive like nothing was wrong, so I can't even tell if it struggled to recover anything.
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Stupid RapidSpar stealing all my business. Lol
 
I am late but just signed up for a demo. I will wait patiently until it is my turn. I told my techs about it and they are excited. We have about 15 drives that we will test and report the outcome as soon as it is our turn.
 
We got a few questions about what we were expecting for the testimonials, so I figured I'd post it here.

We’ve been selling data recovery tools for 12 years now. In this time we’ve learned very well that our product is truly sold only when it is being regularly used to do recoveries somewhere. As soon as it’s not generating enough value, it’ll get sold used to someone else. In something like 80-90% of these cases, the buyer of the used unit was planning to buy a new one, so we effectively lose a sale every time our products don’t work out for someone and get sold off. This makes us very interested in helping our customers make correct choices regarding their equipment purchases. In line with that, for these testimonials we are looking for honest feedback on what the device can do, aimed at helping other IT service providers make the right decision on whether RapidSpar is a fit for their business.

Another thing - we are on our third and last Canadian demo tester right now, so if anyone else from Canada is still looking to test one then please sign up ASAP. Otherwise this unit will be going to companies from the UK.
 
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cyabro said:
:( What about those in little old New Zealand?
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Hello Cyabro.
We are planning on expanding our program to Australia soon and also consider New Zealand. As a matter of fact if you know the owners of businesses like yours and get them to sign up for the program, we could start with New Zealand before Australia.
email me to vpashkov@deepspar.com if interested

Vlad
 
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