Samsung came out with one of the first generations of Read Retry chips a few years back. Models: K9BCG08U1M, K9BCG08U1A, K9CDG08U5A, K9ABG08U0A based off the same die w/ an ID of ec d7 98 ca (0xecd798ca). Read Retry is a…

We received a flash drive without a case. It's a Silicon Motion SM3251Q BA 2GB flash drive w/ Toshiba NAND memory. When inserted into a computer it shows a phantom (grayed out) drive letter. This is the controllers safe mode…

We recovered an Ativa 4GB. The drive looks like it's in good condition however there were actually some damaged via's and traces from the USB connector being bumped. The drive uses a Toshiba TC58NC2250G6F controller which is a rebranded Phison…

We were able to solve the pinout for the FAB8GBHSTS3SI2B & FAB16GHSTS3SI4B monolithic series of flash drives usually found in PNY and HP branded flash drives. It uses a Silicon Motion Controller and Samsung NAND memory. If you need your…

One of our customers sent us a flash drive that had been worked on by someone else. The first thing we noticed was that one of the pins on the NAND chip was missing. Luckily we're able to repair this…

We're now able to recover data from PNY High Performance SDHC Class 10 SD Cards. They use 2Y-nm (eg: 20-24nm) NAND Flash chips which required us to construct a special 1.8v/3.3 voltage leveling adapter and implement manual reference voltage adjusting…

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I've seen a lot of unrecoverable Kingston monolithic flash drives lately. It appears to be due to a bad retention clip design on the DataTraveler G2 and G3 drives. The drives typically overheat or show up as a phantom drive…

After two long years of on and off R&D we finally developed a solution for recovering data from failed PNY Pro Elite and PNY Professional SD cards. These cards use a monolithic flash chip with a very fine pitch making…