Selecting the drives to image and the tapes to write the images to was simple, as was properly selecting the tape from which to restore the image. But it could not overcome the BIOS and see the rest of the drive if the BIOS reported a geometry that did not include all the sectors. However, if the BIOS reported a geometry that included all the sectors, SnapBack properly imaged and restored those IDE drives, earning it a yellow flag of caution. Since SnapBack does not provide the user with an option screen to put the program in direct access mode, a user could use the tool on an IDE drive, not image the entire drive, and not know the image was incomplete. The only way to use DatArrest to image a disk is to write the image to a SCSI tape, but that is no real drawback.
SCSI tapes are cheap media.
This allows an investigator to verify that an image process completed successfully.