David spent a decade in IT support, and the last four years of it inside a data-recovery lab, imaging failing drives for people who thought their files were gone. He writes our data recovery and backup coverage from Manchester, UK.
His test bench is a shelf of deliberately failed media: deleted partitions, formatted SD cards, corrupted phone storage. Every recovery tool he reviews runs against the same wrecked drives, and the verdict rests on how much each one actually gets back, not what its marketing claims.
Backup software gets the same treatment in reverse: he judges it by restoring, not just backing up, because a backup you have never restored is a rumor. Early in his career he lost a client’s RAID array, and the dead drive still sits on his desk as a reminder of what these tools are for.
Articles by David
David’s first recovery and backup tests are underway. Browse Data Recovery and Backup for the first results.
Questions for David, or a tool we should put on the bench? Reach the team through our contact page.