Odysseas Kourafalos

Odysseas Kourafalos has close to four decades of experience in technology and has used uncountable pieces of software, from Commodore 128’s GEOS to the latest version of Krita on Windows 11. Inadvertently, he also had to occasionally recover many types of data from various storage devices on multiple platforms. This experience also gave him a deeper understanding of how technology “ticks”, including storage solutions, file systems, and data recovery apps. Thanks to that, he can untangle complicated topics, like RAID data recovery, and turn them into easy-to-understand articles, tutorials, and guides anyone can understand. Odysseas is also an expert in areas such as Android-powered devices and everything related to Linux.

• Main Windows PC with Windows 11 (version 23H2)
• Secondary PC with no permanent OS (regularly switching between versions of Windows and various Linux distributions)
• Steam Deck with SteamOS (based on Arch Linux)
• 4x first-gen Raspberry Pis running various OSes (Raspbian, OpenELEC, etc.)
• Xiaomi smartphone with MIUI Global 12.0.10 Stable
• Dozens of Hard Disk Drives (external WD My Book 5TB, external Seagate Backup Plus Hub 5TB, WD Blue 500GBs, WD Green 1TB & 1.5TB, WD Red 3TB, etc.)
• Icy Box 4x HDD External Enclosure
• Samsung SSD 980 Pro 1TB NVMe, Samsung SSD 860 EVO, and Kingston SV100S2128G as system drives.
• Transcend multi-card reader.
• Various SD and MicroSD cards (like Adata 4GBs, Sandisk 4GBs – 16GBs, etc.)
• Various USB Flash Drives (ranging from Kingston 256MBs to Transcend 128GBs)
• Various CD and DVD readers/writers (Nec, Hitachi-LG, Plextor, etc.)