Overall, Disk Drill produced higher quality results than R-Studio did. However, R-Studio was able to recognize our ACCDB files, which Disk Drill doesn’t support. R-Studio produced less consistent numbers. However, Disk Drill still restored more files of almost every type – including non-Microsoft Office file types, such as those of OpenOffice and Apple. R-Studio did a little better during document recovery, missing only one file type (DJVU). None of the file types Disk Drill missed (R3D, ARI, and ARX) were found by R-Studio either. Disk Drill found 18 of the 21 file types we tested, while R-Studio found 16. We got similar results when we attempted to restore our videos. R-Studio did not recognize the file types that Disk Drill missed, which were CRW, EXR, and INSP.

It found 34 out of the 37 common file types we tested for, while R-Studio only recognized 25. Starting with RAW photos, Disk Drill recognized significantly more file signatures than R-Studio did. However, our real-life recovery challenge reveals that this software usually doesn’t produce the same results even if they have similar features. Up until this point, the competition remained neck-and-neck between Disk Drill and R-Studio. We strongly suggest you continue reading before making a decision. However, there are major differences between both software in terms of performance, and especially, in terms of features.

R-Studio comes out cheaper than Disk Drill and should also be a strong consideration if you only ever want to restore individual FAT or NTFS partitions. For coverage on all partitions, you can buy the $79.99 license.

You can buy individual (perpetual) licenses for FAT and NTFS partitions that cost $49.99 and $59.99 respectively. R-Studio offers a more interesting pricing model. On the other hand, R-Studio lets users recover as many files as they want for free – as long as each file is 256 KB and below.Īt the time of this writing, Disk Drill is offering a pretty good deal: $89 for perpetual licenses that cover both the macOS and Windows versions of the app. If you want to recover more files, you’ll need to pay for a license. In other words, they offer users a partial use of their services as a free trial.ĭisk Drill provides users with up to 500 MB of free data recovery. Both apps use a “freemium” business model.

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