We’ve noticed many newer Secure Digital (SD) and USB Flash drives are implementing garbage collection routines similar to solid state drives. Specifically to speed up write operations the controller will write information to a pre-allocated list of erased blocks or…
Another first for Recover My Flash Drive, we reverse engineered the pin-out for the monolithic SD card MMAGF02GWMCU-PA used by PNY in their Optima SD series of SD cards. This card seems like a OEM Samsung product so its possible…
Ever wanted to know what’s inside a flash memory chip? Nothing magical, just regular silicon die but it’s still fun to look at. As far as I know we're the only data recovery company in the North America outside of…
We have successfully reverse engineered the STEC 24850-00211-XC1U controller used in many OEM solid state drives. These controllers are commonly found in mini-PCIe solid state drives sold by Dell for use in Dell Mini Laptops (DP/N: 0X422G & 0D154H) When…
First if your data is important visit our flash drive data recovery page for more information on our services. Receiving a "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk"error when plugging in your flash drive? This typically means the metadata stored…
In the last few months we’ve seen an increase in 8GByte NAND memory chips with an abnormally high amount of bit errors. These memory chips are primarily manufactured by Micron and Intel with the model numbers (Micron) 29F64G08CFAAA and (Intel)…
As one of the leading NAND data recovery shops in the USA we see many different types of drive failure. In most cases the drive is completely inaccessible however occasionally we’ll run into a drives that are still partially functional…
Demand for Solid State Drives (SSD) has grown in 2009 thanks to inexpensive controllers, and low cost high density MLC NAND memory chips. As one of the few data recovery shops specializing in NAND data recovery we’re often asked for…
Many devices such as USB flash drives, Solid State Drives (SSD), and memory cards (CF, SD, etc) use NAND memory to store data. NAND memory is inexpensive however it does have its faults. These are some interesting things i've learned…