Who writes on Save My Disk
Our team: who we are, what we test, and why we take consumer data recovery seriously.
Eric Gerard
Editor · Data recovery and backup specialist
Independent editor for 12 years, former network admin at an industrial SMB. I've spent years testing data recovery software on SATA, NVMe, SD and USB drives to check in the field what vendors claim on their spec sheets. On this site, every recommendation comes from hands-on use, not a product brochure.
My career started in 2010 as a network admin for a French industrial SMB: three sites, fifty workstations, and responsibility for local backups on LTO tapes and Synology NAS. That's where I first saw what a botched RAID 5 crash could cost a factory floor - and since then, I've known data recovery isn't a marketing product; it's a discipline with hard physical rules (don't write to the failing disk, image first with dd, work on the copy). After 2014 I switched to affiliate tech publishing, keeping the same hands-on discipline: I buy every license myself as a normal customer, I run the tools on real drives, and I lean on documented capabilities and public consensus rather than invented figures. I'm self-taught - no degree in data forensics, but 12 years of operational practice on HDD, SSD, NVMe, SD cards, USB drives, plus continuous reading of NIST SP 800-88 (sanitization) and professional forums (HDDSurgery, Ace Lab). I publish under my full name and personally answer technical questions sent through the contact form.
Have a question about a recovery case or a tool we tested? Email me directly at contact@save-my-disk.com - I answer personally.
Areas of coverage
- File recovery on HDD, SSD, NVMe and SD cards
- Lost partition, RAW and MFT corruption diagnosis
- Comparative tests of EaseUS, Recuva, Disk Drill, R-Studio, PhotoRec
- 3-2-1 backup strategies and local encryption
- GDPR audit and CJ Affiliate compliance
Editorial review
Save My Disk is written and edited by Eric. There is no paid reviewer panel - technical claims are checked against vendor documentation, the documented mechanics of storage and deletion, and the consensus of public reviews before publication.
Editorial standards
Every article published on Save My Disk follows the process below, with no exceptions or shortcuts.
Technical claims verified before publication
Articles with measurable technical claims (recovery rates, scan times, TRIM behavior) are checked against vendor documentation, the documented mechanics of storage and deletion, and aggregated public reviews. Unverifiable or invented figures are removed.
Editorial transparency
This is an editorial comparison, not a private lab study. We don't publish invented per-scenario percentages - capability ratings are qualitative (High / Medium / Low) and the software version covered is noted on each product page.
Maximum revision cycle of 90 days
No article stays published longer than 90 days without a review of its technical content. The frontmatter date (datePublished / dateModified) reflects the last real verification, not a cosmetic CI build.
Public correction policy
If a factual error is reported, we correct it within 48 business hours and add a dated note at the bottom of the article explaining the change. No silent corrections.
Conflicts of interest declared on every page
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