SanDisk Cruzer Glide 128GB (SDCZ60-128G) – Weak NAND Cells Recovered
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 128GB (SDCZ60-128G) with severe NAND Vt drift causing uncorrectable ECC failures. Recovered 100% via Vref calibration and multi-read soft-decision combining.
Recovering data from a FC1179 AA3 Controller (RAW)
Sadly we were only able to get a partial raw recovery in this case which is typical, but usually we're able to get a better recovery by modifying block numbers however the block number markers made no sense, only high…
Fun X-Ray Tech
We have a high resolution X-Ray machine now for identifying internal faults inside IC's. For example this Lexar Monolithic Flash Drive (FC1178 Based) had a short at the controller preventing us from reading the flash memory chip using standard pin-out…
Database of Developed Monolithic Pinouts
We routinely develop pinouts and work on monolithic pinouts for our clients and other data recovery labs. Over the years we’ve developed specialized tools and techniques to work on monolithic chips that other data recovery labs don’t have. Typically, we…
Samsung Flash Drive Data Recovery
We have developed an in-house solution for getting near perfect data recoveries from Silicon Motion based SM3280 based controllers used in commonly flash drives like the Samsung Bar, Samsung Duo, Samsung Plus, and Samsung Fit monolithic flash drives. Traditional tools…
NAND Read Retry for Data Recovery
In addition to many of the common methods to improve NAND reliability and performance (eg: wear leveling, error correction code, etc) another common method we’re seeing is the inclusion of Read Retry (Voltage Sensitivity) registers. These registers appear to change…
Lexar S50 (AU6998AN) Data Recovery
Here we have an 8GB Lexar S50 Flash Drive. These came in a flip top package usually sold as a pair of two or three with different colors. It uses an Alcor Micro AU6998AN Controller and came in 8, 16,…
SanDisk SDCZ48 / SDCZ50 / SDCZ60 Broken Connector
Here we have a SanDisk 16GB SDCZ60 Series Cruzer Glide flash drive that came in with a broken USB connector — a very common failure on this generation of SanDisk drives. The SDCZ48, SDCZ50, and SDCZ60 all share the same…
Reballing LGA-152 NAND Chips
Often, we have to reball LGA-152 NAND chips to swap them from one PCB to another. For example, from a bad circuit board to a donor circuit board. This is an example reballing a Micron NW657 NAND Chip with 0.40mm…