Solid State Drive Data Recovery
While SSDs are super fast, contrary to popular belief, they are not impervious to failure. Fusion engineers are continually keeping up to date with the ever evolving space of solid state technology. We can work with nearly all failed solid state drives, including SATA, M2, mSATA, and Apple's proprietary SSD interfaces. We will perform a FREE evaluation of your SSD then provide you with a firm price once we have successfully determined the failure. Our state-of-the-art tools, training, and experience give us what we need to recover data from your failed SSD drive with or without extracting the NAND memory chips from your SSD depending on the type of failure and the make and model of your SSD.
Complexities of SSD Data Recovery
Due to their incredibly fast speed with no moving parts, SSD drives are becoming more and more popular. Some even believe they are bullet proof. Many manufacturers are entering the market with a variety of technology, capacities, and interfaces for different purposes. Some are built to replace the standard 2.5 inch laptop hard drive. Others use miniature connection types such as M.2, mSATA or proprietary connections, like the Mac Book Air, that allow for some of the thinnest laptops ever made.
Because of the incredibly fast changes in the SSD market and the lack of standardization even within the same models, SSD data recovery is extremely complex. With anywhere from 4 to 16 memory chips and data spread across them using manufacturer unique algorithms, firmware, and fault correcting features to extend the life of their SSD's, we consistently see new challenges. This has created exciting, and sometimes frustrating, opportunities for learning with each new devices we see. While we have yet to see every SSD on the market in our lab, we have seen and successfully recovered data from a huge number of them.
The Basics of SSD Technology
All solid state drives use an array of multiple memory chips working with a controller and firmware to write data across the chips. There are three basic chip technologies that all SSD's on the market use; SLC, MLC and TLC. In order to achieve higher capacity storage devices at more competitive prices most SSDs on the market today use either MLC or TLC technology. The problem is these higher capacity chips have a much lower number of writes before they fail. SLC chips average about 100,000 writes per cell, MLC chips about 10,000 writes per cell, and TLC chips about 3000 to 5000 writes per cell before individual cells fail.
Like a battery that fails to hold a charge after a certain amount of time or recharges, all flash chips have a certain amount of writes per cell at which point the bad cells lead to chip failure. Nearly all SSDs with MLC or TLC chips are designed with fault correcting technology that transfers the data from the bad cell to a reserve cell using Error Correction Code (ECC) technology. This means a certain number of cells are reserved by the controller and firmware to replace the damaged cells of your SSD as they fail in order to keep your SSD working like it’s supposed to. When an SSD drive reaches its maximum number of errors, solid state drives will often lock up or fail making the SSD unrecognizable by your system or recognized with the wrong capacity.
We offer a couple data recovery service options for solid state technology:
➢ Emergency Services: 24 - 48 hour average
➢ Rush Services: 2 - 5 day average
➢ Standard Services: 1 - 2 week average
