Hardware Restore Cards - The Evolution
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Hardware Restore Cards history
The hard drive recovery card was introduced over 20 years ago by many hdd recovery card manufacturers in Asia. The Recovery Card was designed to protect PC hard drives from inadvertant user changes as well as automating the maintenance of PC - consistant system configurations on every restart...
Initially, the primary difference between restore cards and recovery based software was, that on the recovery cards the software (firmware) is hard coded onto the actual card. In fact Drive Vaccine's birth originated as a hardware based recovery card. Many current hard drive recovery card manufacturers use the hardware card as a simple "dongle", as software piracy is still quite rampant in many developing countries.
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Recovery Cards: Moving Forward
In recent years - corporation, educational institution and end-point users wanted the same type of robust hardware based protection; without the deployment issues of installation, driver configurations and upgrades. This requirement brought on a new breed of software based recovery/restore solutions.
Schools and public access computing environment were content with the simple reboot and restore technology. However, many IT professionals wanted more features - such as; The ability to accept Windows & Antivirus updates and the ability to save data to a particular partition or Freeze space (Drive Vaccine).
Today many of the legacy hard drive recovery card manufactures are part of a dieing breed. Advancements in software have made recovery cards completely obsolete. Products such as Drive Vaccine have become successful replacements for legacy recovery cards.
Why Hardware Restore Cards are becoming obsolete:
Hardware Restore Cards are hard to deploy over large corporate environments.Hardware Restore Cards are more expensive than software based reboot and restore solutions.
Hardware Restore Cards are used as a dongle to prevent piracy in third world countries. However, advancements in software licensing and authentication have made software based solutions more popular.
Hardware Restore Cards provide a "all-or-nothing" (reboot-restore) solution. Whereas software based recovery solutions have many features, making it usefull for a larger IT audience.
Hardware Restore Cards require shipping, as opposed to electronic download of software based solutions.
Hardware Restore Cards have potential hardware conflicts with certain systems and OS drivers.
Advancements in low-level kernal more drivers allows solutions like Drive Vaccine to provide robust protection, without hardware recovery card installation and setup procedures.
Software based solutions can accept windows OS and antivirus updates without the need of unprotection status or unnecessary system reboots. More features with sofware based solutions.
Hardware Restore Cards can be seen a part of a Static Complete System Solution - when comparing it in our PC Evolution path.
Recovery cards: How does it compare with Drive Vaccine?
Many users of legacy Hardware Restore Cards have switched to the more technologically advanced restoration utility Drive Vaccine for various reasons. In Fact, a majority of large school districts across North America depend on the PC restore on reboot functionality of Drive Vaccine.
How does Drive Vaccine Compare to Hardware Restore Cards
Drive Vaccine PC Restore Plus integrates Reboot-and-Restore, a simple technology designed to keep computers fully functional and optimally configured. However, Drive Vaccine uses sector mapping technology to acheive its restore on reboot funtionality. This results in a more robust, faster, and more efficient computing experience. In addition to restoring on reboot, Drive Vaccine PC Restore Plus can Restore on User Log-Off and can also maintain a safe "Freeze" space for file and data storage. RecoveryGenius uses a buffering technique that requires protection to be disabled whenever system updates are needed. With Drive Vaccine, Systems can be updated without complicated scripting etc. - The protection is always on; and users can easily backout of failed software/OS updates.
Simple to use: Just Reboot or Log-off and Restore
Since the protection is invisible; users feel as though they have absolute control of the system. Regardless of what they may attempt to do, including erasing files, installing software or even modifying registry settings, the computers will restore to their configured baseline settings everytime they are restarted or when a user logs-off. Making the workstations perfectly configured and available for the next user.
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Drive Vaccines PC Restore on Reboot or Log-off drastically reduces computer maintenance, and is widely used to protect public access computers, (ie. library public computers, school PC Labs, etc) or shared computing environments where a workstation could be misused or damaged either intentionally by a malicious user or accidentally by a learning student.
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