News about FarStone and reviews of FarStone products have appeared in numerous online publications including CBS MarketWatch, Lycos, Yahoo!, and Silicon Valley Business Ink as well as print publications such as USA Today, PC World and PC Magazine.
“DriveClone Pro works in three modes and adds some useful utilities.”
“DriveClone can write system back-ups and file backups to second internal drives, external USB devices, burnable CDs/DVDs, and even over a LAN to a network drive, and it does it all very quickly with compression set to Medium. A Linux-based boot disc allows for restoring from all modes and from all sources, even if Windows won’t boot.”
— Warren Ernst, Computer Power User, November 2007
“More to the point, Drive Clone Pro still gives me everything that I decided I liked in the old Restore IT product, but added some features that has me scratching my head wondering why I so rarely see these features in their competitor’s products. Like: incremental file backups can now be by category (picture files, music, desktop folder, video, etc) and will ask you how many different versions of duplicate files you wish to keep....WOW...about freaking time!!”
“FarStone’s DriveClone Pro is one of the easiest-to-use hard drive imaging and backup offerings on the market. The software installs in seconds and provides many useful, quick data-transfer capabilities.”
“In my long search for a backup/restore utility for my Windows machines, I’ve tried just about everything I could get my hands on... What I had been wanting was...boot into a non-Windows system to do a full backup, but still be able to use that same backup to restore just the file I accidentally dumped in a mad disk cleaning frenzy.
“So why am I so excited about something as mundane as a backup/restore utility? ...I travel a lot and have had a disk drive die out from under me... I don’t want to have to dig around for my Windows License key, I don’t want to be forced into a single vendor solution, and most importantly I’d like a restore utility that gives me back a machine ready to go without forcing me into repairing various applications.”
— Brian Chee, InfoWorld, May 18, 2007
“FarStone offers a well-designed product that should find favor among SMBs for its very granular recovery.” David Hill, principal of the Mesabi Group, told eWEEK.
“The biggest question on our minds when we installed VirtualDrive 10 was whether or not it would work as well or better than some of the freeware and shareware offerings available today. The answer is an unqualified ‘yes.’ And... if you travel with software that requires an original CD or DVD, VirtualDrive can dramatically reduce losses and damage simply because you won't have to carry the disks anymore. Recommended.”
“FarStone VirtualDrive Network is a useful, stable and effective application. The application would be extremely useful in an educational or technical work environment, where users need access to learning materials, or even reference documents or file libraries.”
Tom Fedro, Executive VP at FarStone provides a product overview of RestoreIT on a nationally syndicated radio program called the Family Tech Show. Click here to listen to the interview in MP3 format. The interview is approximately 12 minutes long.
FarStone's RestoreIT Offers Secure Image-Based Backup: “Security solutions must tread a fine line between access and availability. FarStone Technology, Irvine, Calif., has answered the call to make imaging both easy to use and appropriate for security purposes in the form of its RestoreIT line.”
"RestoreIT 6 is your data savior. You can save yourself countless hours of recreating, reinstallation, and especially frustration...I found it to be one of the most important and useful utility programs I've ever used." (February 2005)
c/net Reviews VirtualDrive: “Gamers, travelers and anyone who doesn’t want to carry around a load of discs with them will find VirtualDrive CD/DVD Emulator useful.”
PC Magazine Says VirtualDrive is ‘Very Cool’: In its review of Motion Computing’s M1200 Tablet PC, PC Magazine called FarStone’s VirtualDrive software (included with the Motion Tablet) a “very cool app.”
“Score: 9 out of 10. The recovery speed is fast, it’s very easy to use and it takes almost no system resources.”
“Backup and recovery is very important. RestoreIT is one of the few software programs in this market that has both speed and functionality.”
Maximum PC Review of GameDrive
“...with the (GameDrive) virtual disc loaded on our PC, we no longer have to face the heartache of trying to install a feature that requires the original CD when it’s not handy.”
“GameDrive comes out flawless. If you are a gaming fanatic...then buying GameDrive is a no-brainer. It makes me wonder why I haven’t used something like this much sooner.”
PC Magazine Names VirtualDrive ‘Best of the Rest’
“...some CD apps won’t work if the CD-ROM isn’t in your drive. FarStone Technology’s VirtualDrive... overcomes this inconvenience...“
