Data Recovery

[SkidMarkKing]

Hi guys,

I run a PC repair company and would like to get into the data recovery side of things for SD Cards, solid state sata and nvme drives etc. I know a lot of people recommend PC3000/Acelabs equipment & software which I have added upto well over £4000/£5000. On top of this there's the clean room equipment as well.

Thought ide ask here to see if anyone knows if there's certain equipment you can use a little cheaper to get into it then reinvest into more expensive equipment? Maybe start off with format issues etc and leave the platter issues/head issues to the bigger companies for now?

Thanks

 

[EsaT]

Clean room is really needed for opening mechanical drives.
Solid state memories don't have such "sensitive for dust particles getting inside cover" issues.
(+ helium filled drives another issue)

But in their own way solid state storage devices are magnitudes harder to recover than magneting/mechanical parts using medias:
In the latter data is written in order with one file system level address corresponding to certain physical position.
Again in solid state devices using Flash memory, there's absolutely zero correlation between addresses used by file system for accessing data and where data is actually located on device.
Controller manages all that address translation work hidden from view of fiel system etc.
And for wear leveling reasons controller can assign same file system address to different physical location on chips the next time file system writes into it.
With wear proceeding unevenly controller eventually even moves static data to different location to take those cells into use for contantly changing data.

Hence need for expensive special equipment for even slightest hope of recovering anything from Flash storage device which doesn't cooperate.