R-Tools Technology· Software
R-Studio
A long-standing disk recovery suite from R-Tools (Canada) with RAID reconstruction; the Technician edition adds imaging and forensic features for labs.
- Price
- R-Studio US$79.99; Corporate US$179.99; Technician about US$899 (one-time); demo recovers files up to 1 MB
- Facts checked
- 24 October 2026
- Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux
- RAID Automatic detection
- Licence From US$79.99
- Demo Recovers files up to 1 MB
What it does
- Recovers files from deleted, formatted or damaged partitions
- Builds virtual RAIDs, detects RAID settings automatically and supports custom layouts
- Assembles Storage Spaces, Apple RAID and Fusion, mdadm and LVM volumes
- Corporate package: recovers data on other PCs over a network
- Technician: multi-pass imaging, sector maps, forensic mode and support for lab hardware such as imagers
What it supports
- File systems
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- FAT12 / 16 / 32
- exFAT
- NTFS
- ReFS
- HFS / HFS+
- APFS
- Ext2 / 3 / 4
- XFS
- UFS1 / UFS2
- RAID
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- 0
- 1
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 10
- 1E
- 5E
- 5EE
- 6E
- Custom layouts
- Volume managers
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- Storage Spaces
- Apple RAID / CoreStorage / Fusion
- mdadm
- LVM
- Media
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- Internal and external drives
- USB drives
- Memory cards
- Disk images
- Virtual disks
- Runs on
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- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
Editions and prices
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R-Studio
US$79.99
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Corporate
US$179.99; recovers over a network (1 Agent included)
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Technician
about US$899; multi-pass imaging, forensic mode, lab hardware support
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T80+
$80 per system, time-limited (80 days minimum), no RAID module
From the maker's website on 24 October 2026. Prices change; confirm with the maker.
Sources: the maker's official pages
- https://www.r-studio.com/
- https://www.r-studio.com/Data_Recovery_Technician.shtml
- https://www.r-studio.com/RStudio_Network_Package.shtml
Checked on 24 October 2026.
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