NAS vendors and data recovery specifics
On this page, you find the most popular NAS vendors and for some of them we give specifics
which should be taken into account when recovering data from a NAS device.
NETGEAR – until 2013, the vendor used EXT filesystem,
but since then has implemented Btrfs filesystem in all their devices.
Since Btrfs has not been widely used up to that point there were no software capable to recover data from.
Nowadays, some data recovery software vendors have already implemented algorithms for Btrfs recovery,
but there is really a small number of such data recovery tools and the price is about $200.
Drobo – NASes from this vendor are difficult if not impossible to recover,
since Drobo does not use typical RAID layouts like RAID0, RAID5 or RAID6, but instead utilizes its own one.
There are very few data recovery programs that can recover data from Drobo. One of them ReclaiMe Pro software.
Synology – in NASes from this vendor, it is possible to use disks of different sizes.
Such NASes are called Synology Hybrid RAID. This specific complicates data recovery to some extent.
In addition to the above NAS vendors, the following ones are also popular among users:
- QNAP
- Buffalo
- Thecus
- Iomega
- Western Digital
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