Hard Drive Recovery Software

Computer hard drive is a storage device which stores computer operating system, applications, and huge amounts of user data. A hard disk is usually divided into many Logical Drives or Partitions. Hard drives have fast accessing speed and large storage capacities.

There are several hard drive companies, which provide drives with different accessing speed and storage capacity. Some of the main hard drive manufacturers are:

Seagate

A major USA based hard drive company, founded in 1979. The company manufactures a wide variety of PC hard disks and high performance SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) hard drives. The Seagate hard disks have up to 7200 RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) access speed and 1 TB storage capacity.

Western Digital

A California based hard drive manufacturer, founded in 1970. It is the second largest hard drive company in the world. Western Digital is the maker of popular Caviar line of computer hard drives. Western Digital hard drives have up to 10,000 RPM of access speed and 300 GB storage capacity.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

This is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hitachi Ltd. and headquartered in California, USA. Hitachi purchased the hard disk drive division of IBM, integrated their own hard drive operations, and launched new organization in January 2003. The company provides hard drives with up to 1 TB of storage capacity.

Maxtor

Another USA based hard drive manufacturer, founded in 1982, but acquired by Seagate in 2006. Maxtor hard disks have same accessing speed and storage capacity as Seagate hard drives.

Fujitsu

This is a Japanese hard drive company, headquartered in Korea. Apart from reliable and large capacity hard drives, the company also develops servers, personal computers, and laptops. The Fujitsu hard drives have up to 10,000 RPM accessing speed and 300 GB storage capacity.

Large storage capacity and fast accessing speed gives numerous advantages to the users, but also has drawbacks like high failure chances. Hard drive failure leads to critical data loss situations and requires hard drive recovery to be handled.

Stellar provides powerful hard drive recovery software for Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, Linux, and Novell operating systems. The hard drive recovery tools work with all types of hard drives made by these companies. The various types of hard drives from which data can be retrieved using the recovery software include SCSI, SATA, EIDE, and IDE.