R-Studio Technician supports three types of object images:
The following Table presents the advantages and disadvantages of these imaging types and our recommendations.
Linear | Runtime | Multi-pass | |
Advantages | Fast for healthy drives |
Very fast: it images only those drive areas that are necessary to recover files. You may start file recovery immediately in parallel with disk imaging. |
All problem areas are processed and all accessible data is extracted. |
Drawbacks | Slow for faulty drives. May get stuck on large bad block areas. | Images are incomplete. | Slow. It's necessary to wait for the imaging process to complete to proceed with further data recovery. |
Recommendations | Use it for healthy drives or drives with a very small number of bad sectors. | Use it for fast recovery. | Use it for faulty drives. |