321Soft Data Recovery for Mac Editor's Review

Recover lost data, drives and partitions with this must have Mac utility.

Keeping your data safe is important.  I've had times when not only the source file, but the backups of the source data is corrupted and the only way to get anything back is to try to recover the data from a bad drive. I've been there, and its been painful.  When you find yourself in a situation like this, its good to have tools like 321Soft Data Recovery for Mac. It just might be able to save your bacon.

321Soft Data Recovery is a full-featured data recovery solution for OS X that's designed to recover lost, formatted and deleted files from hard drives, flash drives, Memory Cards, mobile devices, or any other type portable storage devices. Flexible parameter settings give you absolute control over data recovery. Regardless of how the data was lost 321Soft Data Recovery can still recover the data.

The app is VERY easy to use.  You don't need to have any previous data recovery experience in order to use the app effectively.  The app's File Preview will allow you to preview files before you recover or attempt to recover them.

App Pro’s: Easy to use, comprehensive

App Con’s: Expensive

Conclusion: In addition to being a full-featured recovery utility, 321Soft Data Recovery also includes a powerful RAID reconstruction utility that can repair lost or damaged RAID volumes.  The tool also has a feature-rich hex editor, and a disk clone/imaging module that allows you to create disk image files to recover data from drives that have bad sectors.

Every computer owner should have an app like this around for emergencies.  The biggest problem with it, however, is its price. Its expensive, and in normal use cases, you're likely not going to use it very often.  You're going to have to really think about the importance of the lost data before you purchase.  However, from a recovery and usability perspective, this is a must have, no brainer.