trying to save data from SanDisk Milpitas controller WD SA510 SSD 

Some listen to a master on the violin, others listen to a master with a soldering iron. Both are great!

Still very fascinating to watch your work

Masterful attempt anyways... good job!

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Hi, sorry to ask this but i have a 1tb ST1000DM003-9YN162-500 SN S1D3H7EZ with the firmware CC4B, and the board 100664987 REV B that sounds normal, but never gets detected. Ive tried using different sata ports and cables and nothing works. When it first stopped working i noticed that when i tried opening a folder it said a device which does not exist was specified. It died while i was away and it was running. Do you think that some of the sata filter capacitors on the data lines might have broke open? Or should i just replace the board and swap the bios chip? Thank you

Do you plan to ever create a course(s) in data recovery? By the way, where did you get training from or is it you learnt bits and pieces over the years. Let me know your thoughts.

I have one of these ssds and its failed on me. From what i can find its a firmware issue. I have been trying to find someone who can possibly recover my data on it.

What are these two smaller soldering irons? Is it like a separate tool?

If there is actual encryption (AES256 comes to mind, common for HDDs) going on and the key to the encryption is inside the controller and unique per controller, you will not be able to decrypt/translate the memory. The only solution I can think of would be to have someone that that is capable of hardware level hacking of microchips have a look at this. The process will likely require a crazy expensive laboratory and a FIB (focused ion beam) microscope and quite a few donors to perfect the technique before attempting at an actual controller. Costs would easily go over 100K dollars for the first one and probably tens of thousands for ones that are exactly the same, if it is even possible to do this. Having said that, there may be some simple solution that is much easier/cheaper, above is just a not unlikely scenario.

so we're stuck on same old problems like slightly different controllers and firmwares like HDD's boards

You said you would put timestamps in the description

What the heck is that? It's the first time I see an integrated circuit with two rows of leads/pins on one side 🤯

Hi bro i need a little help and suggestion regarding hgst laptop hdd 1tb even if the platter has scratches can we retrieve the data and without spinning drive hdd how disk platters scratched if possible please reply to doubt s

most ssd has self fixed function in the firmware so if it detect an issue then it will fix it self, i am in forensics an see often sdd disk that will not detect at all then i leave them poweron for 24 hours or so then they offen start working normal again.. Think what it is you see here, so always just start give the disk power for an number of hours and see if it not recover from the self fixing function.

I wonder why they would tie them together like that. It seems like it would take longer and cost more money and makes it harder to fix if issues happen.

controller is serialized to the NAND chip ?

Why not a chip of raw read, store it away for if/when the utility's are developed.

My 240gb wd green just died yesterday it shows sandisk milpitas in bios and on ubuntu it only shows 16kb

Hi ERICK I am a follower of yours, could you give me a piece of advice it is that when I change the toshiba 2.5 heads I can never get data, I am using MRT and unfortunately I can never get data the model is an MQ04... you will have some solution please, and I would also like you to show me please thank you I am from PERU

Wd. Sa 510. Are. They. Good. Quality. Im. Looking. For. Some. Ssd. Large. Type. For. Backups. Recomend. Some. Please. Thanks. Bro. ,...cus.....

i curios about that. i only use cheap ssd and on my pc there never failed one one drive had a on time of 40.000h and was written way beyond it was designt for. maby this is because it was a mlc drive with only 60gb and used 8 nand chips on that board. on my server they fail frequently due the permanent read and write stress at full speed. but also this are only cheap sata drives in a raid 10 configuration so this does not really bother me because i dont care about recovery, all stored data is volatile and temporarily. all data that is from value is stored on a separate array drives in raid 1 and dont stay on that for long. after the analyses is done all saved data gets be written on a external hdd and then a backup of that. they only purpose for that ssd is do be fast and sata ssd are extremely cheap compared to sas 6gbit ssd drives and if you want 12gbit sas drives you need much more money as this is worth. i do ai stuff and handle big datasets in the range of 2tb to 5tb and my system has 4 cpus with 22cores each and a total if 1.5tb ram, so having 8 ssd as a raid 10 makes sense given the fact my system can handle a gigantic throughput. one ssd usually holds up to 1 year some times 1.5 years. and spending in that time 35€ to 60€ per drive seams ok. a sas6g drive cost about 10 times much and would only last at this rate only 2.5 to 4 years and if i would buy a sas12g drive this nearly doubles the price of the sas6g drives and would lead to a earlier failure because i can access data even faster and they get twice as hot wich is bad again. so jea for my use case cheap sata drives it is. also smart tells you if things beginning to go bad this is what every drive has and it is good enough. yea the smart on sas is way better and can be redden by the raid controller in real time but smart can also be redden by the os and if you monitoring them daily you see hat happen and can order new drives and change them if one drive fails. normally you see this 2 to 3 weeks prior if a drive begins to break. this is a rare use case i know but for personal systems i dont think they will break easily if being cooled by a bit air and dont floating around in the case.

So sandisk and wd ssd is trash?