Amazing video as usual 👍 Thanks for letting us part of your experiences and your journey. I love to see your amazing soldering skills, especially desolder and solder the BGA chips are so satisfying to watch 😍 I have no clue how you everytime achieve, to not remove also the little parts around the chips itself, like smd resistors 😅
I was kind of surprised you could just go out and buy a new one that's compatible. I remember with hard drives you said like even with 6 months they change enough that the PCB isn't compatible anymore. It's also kind of surprising that less than half the device is actually occupied. I figured the PCB would take up the whole enclosure.
How likely are you to use this newly bought evo 860 for other cases, because clearly you kinda invested money in it to have donor board? Is it rare that you get SSD and can you for example use this board later on for different size, for example 250gb?
@@MordePT yeah the controller, but it could simply apply the algorithms similar to say XOR key for 'normal' scrambling. I suppose effect of encryption and XOR scrambling is similar (high entropy) so purpose of encryption may be simply just that in certain cases. Take what I say with grain of salt because I am no encryption expert, I am just thinking out loud.
Samsung SSDs are usually encrypted, with flash tied to the controller. Usually the controller also needs to be transplanted. If this recovery successes, it will be something worth studying.
@@Alan_Skywalker How about when the controller was bad and let change with same controller (same type & same number)? One again, this recovery will applied to Samsung only or with others brands too?
Hey man I must say that you’re really dishing out values at no cost. 👍🏽 How can I get started with data recovery? I know how to solder a bit. Thanks man.
Absolutely fantastic job. How do you know that all the BGA balls are soldered and not shorted :) I have a failed Samsung 256G EVO. I had a power cut and took out the two 0R links on the Rx, and Tx lines. Repaired that and I can now see the SSD but I am not able to read any data. I have some of my daughter's photos on the SSD that I would like to recover. Any thoughts, please? Thank you for your time.
When you're new it can be. Whenever I had to use a hot air gun on a PCB I used to tape anything I didn't want moving with Kapton tape, worked a treat. People also use aluminium foil to act as a heat shield when removing BGA chips.
I've always been curious why the date on the workstation is always out despite being the latest upload. Are these videos really done 9mo ago or is there some other more deliberate reason....?
Great video. Know you're busy but when you get a chance can you check the ticket for the latest work? I didn't receive the original drive back. Thanks!
I find it interesting that the controller just accepted the new NAND directly. Does the firmware contain ECC data and bad blocks mapping for the old nand? Or is the firmware stored on the nand itself and you basically transfered all settings by swapping the nand?
awesomee video i have an 860 as well that went bad, do you think i can just swap the memory to a donor and it would work or do you think I would need the pc-3000? thank in advance
1TB in one single chip, wow, they should make smaller case, full size 2,5 is too big :] And where is heatsink? Have you seen 2,5 ssd with heatsink on chips?
Sir my company has provided some Micro SD and SD cards with data on it but it is write protected. All cards are new about 6 months around but data is outdated and i cant format them tried basic tools and tricks by CMD but none of them worked. All the cards are brand new and fully readable but not writeable. What should i do or any suggestions for software.
gamer's nexus news video today showed various hardware failures from a particular company (I'm guessing they sell either parts or pre-builts) and for storage the SSDs were much more reliable than a hard drive. Hell I have a 830 in my old computer that just got retired last year. It ran for nearly 10 years and still works.
I've been using a 500GB 860 and just got the 870 for my brother's laptop, his 2009 HDD finally began to die. I've been constantly downloading and deleting data from mine for the past 3 years with zero issues. Just updated the FW recently with no data loss, even though I made a back-up just in case. Happened to shock it 2-3 times with ESD ending in PC shut-offs. I've vaped in my room (knowingly) the first year of its use, opened it up the second year, cleared the residues with alcohol and closed it back up. All in all, given the idiotic amount of torture it endured, seems to be a pretty damn durable SSD. 😀🤘 I'm guessing the user in this video spilled straight liquid over his and kept using it without a proper clean while still keeping important non-backed up data on it. Here we are, hundreds of dollars later, witnessing his poor choices. Hope he gets his data back. 🙏
It depends. I've sold maybe 100 units of A DATA su650 and the failure rate was crazy. Something like 75%. Same for silicon power sp55. Cheap SSDs are not reliable
That tool is too complex for that. You need a hands-on experience and a lot of patience to learn these functions. Possibly months-year to get comfortable with it and fully exploit possibilities
@@hddrecoveryservices I understand, and accept it but where can I learn anything about this if is don't want just randomly hit buttons and try functions. Where can I found any kind of good material for learning about this? Would be nice to hear about your path!
Do you (or any hard drive recovery shop anywhere) only recover data or is it possible to refurbish the drive so it will work again A lot of people say to just buy a new drive, but what if I want to have 1TB IDE drive or 400MB (no more, no less) IDE drive, they dont make theese anymore so if one breaks on me, I am scrued
Refurbishing hard drives with focus on further reliability is limited and very circumstantial to the type of problem. As a result, it is not a good strategy to rely on a company's ability to refurbish. In some countries with high population and low to no discretionary income, there is some demand for refurbished hard drives. Price is the #1 factor. Unless we are talking an electronics related failure (more rare compared to the majority of other type of failure), the problem is that refurbished won't be reliable long term and the client ends up being angry and disappointed. On that note, there is also a rise in predatory practices, where a refurbisher hides the flaws with the drive and scam people. Data backup is the proper strategy to not get screwed.
@@Datarecoveryguru1 yea, I know, I am doing this already, but what does a backup count if an old computer will not recognize the modern big drives, even if I restore it to the drive As for compact flesh cards and sd cards, those get bigger with time as well and they are not realy a harddrive replacment, and I would certenatly never store any important data on them
Hi sir i trust and love your work ❤❤❤but i have a problem is it possible to recover data from CD, it doesn't appears on it. I have copied the data, not burnt it and after two days it disappears suddenly, it is showing empty, I don't know what to do. In that I kept a valuable informarion. I can't able to trust everyone, because no one is genuine, but I trusted u please help me 🙏😭😩🙏😭😩😩
My computer has a Seagate 7200.12 250GB hard drive, when it is used for school children. So when it suddenly freezes and presses the restart button. And finally it says (Reboot and Property select devices). Finally it can't be fixed, replace the new hard drive to Western Digital Caviar Blue which is 320GB. I'm people from Indonesian
The black chip is the NAND, or basically where the files are stored. The clear gel-like substance is flux which just helps the solder paste (black “sand”) not mess up when being applied.
The chip is a NAND chip, this is where the data is housed. The clear liquid is flux, it's a cleaning agent to help with soldering. The "black sand" is solder paste, it's very small balls of solder instead of normal wire solder. Solder paste is used for surface mount devices and parts.
Amazing video as usual 👍 Thanks for letting us part of your experiences and your journey. I love to see your amazing soldering skills, especially desolder and solder the BGA chips are so satisfying to watch 😍 I have no clue how you everytime achieve, to not remove also the little parts around the chips itself, like smd resistors 😅
I also working in Data Recovery . And I love your videos. Gave me a lot of knowledge!!!
I was kind of surprised you could just go out and buy a new one that's compatible. I remember with hard drives you said like even with 6 months they change enough that the PCB isn't compatible anymore. It's also kind of surprising that less than half the device is actually occupied. I figured the PCB would take up the whole enclosure.
How likely are you to use this newly bought evo 860 for other cases, because clearly you kinda invested money in it to have donor board? Is it rare that you get SSD and can you for example use this board later on for different size, for example 250gb?
Nice job erkin, another different scenario which we will benefit a lot. Ty for your efforts.go go 30/30 (lets make it 60/60:))
Hey there. Its so relaxing watching your videos after work. Nice job and thank you for the video. Greets
Thanks Stefan
I always thought those evos were encrypted. A "simple" nand swap solves the issue? Can't wait to get back on lab and test something tomorrow 💪💪
Maybe they are but not tied to controller?
will you share your test result?
@@DiskTuna what would do the encryption then?
@@takacsi i don't know 😁
@@MordePT yeah the controller, but it could simply apply the algorithms similar to say XOR key for 'normal' scrambling. I suppose effect of encryption and XOR scrambling is similar (high entropy) so purpose of encryption may be simply just that in certain cases.
Take what I say with grain of salt because I am no encryption expert, I am just thinking out loud.
Samsung SSDs are usually encrypted, with flash tied to the controller. Usually the controller also needs to be transplanted. If this recovery successes, it will be something worth studying.
You swapped controllers on these? Or just think it needs to be done :)
@@hddrecoveryservices I did it every time when I try to fix a samsung drive, because only moving the flash chip never worked for me.
did it work with the controller moved?
@@hddrecoveryservices Yes, if controller itself is good. I have yet to find a way to recover the data if the original controller is bad.
@@Alan_Skywalker How about when the controller was bad and let change with same controller (same type & same number)?
One again, this recovery will applied to Samsung only or with others brands too?
Hey man I must say that you’re really dishing out values at no cost. 👍🏽 How can I get started with data recovery? I know how to solder a bit. Thanks man.
practice and I recommend taking Jessa's class in NY so you can get a good foundation
Nice balls!
183 leaded should be good but a little tricky for reballing since you'll be higher heat.
Hello sir they coming along good 👍 keep up the good work ! Sir I’ve learn new thing and tricks member I do data recovery on phones !
I'm sure people have named there first born after you and learned a good lesson about backups.
Absolutely fantastic job. How do you know that all the BGA balls are soldered and not shorted :)
I have a failed Samsung 256G EVO. I had a power cut and took out the two 0R links on the Rx, and Tx lines. Repaired that and I can now see the SSD but I am not able to read any data. I have some of my daughter's photos on the SSD that I would like to recover. Any thoughts, please? Thank you for your time.
Is it hard to avoid blowing away the surrounding components with the hot air gun?
When you're new it can be. Whenever I had to use a hot air gun on a PCB I used to tape anything I didn't want moving with Kapton tape, worked a treat. People also use aluminium foil to act as a heat shield when removing BGA chips.
I've always been curious why the date on the workstation is always out despite being the latest upload. Are these videos really done 9mo ago or is there some other more deliberate reason....?
Good job, well done!
What fume extractor do you use? Do you like it?
Great video as always, Thank you sir .
I love your channel,
how to learn data recovery ?
In terms of hdd´s a simple pcb swap still possible today? No tools just a swap, would it work or do you need to readout data from the driver chip
Great video. Know you're busy but when you get a chance can you check the ticket for the latest work? I didn't receive the original drive back. Thanks!
i wanna see it for pcb.... i open via pentalobe screwdriver..... failed to attempt for open....
nice repair
I find it interesting that the controller just accepted the new NAND directly. Does the firmware contain ECC data and bad blocks mapping for the old nand? Or is the firmware stored on the nand itself and you basically transfered all settings by swapping the nand?
FW and translator are on NAND as you can see from result
1TB... this will be a very long long long long long job ;)
it was only 500GB used, so it went by fast enough
awesomee video i have an 860 as well that went bad, do you think i can just swap the memory to a donor and it would work or do you think I would need the pc-3000? thank in advance
There will be issues I think
1TB in one single chip, wow, they should make smaller case, full size 2,5 is too big :]
And where is heatsink? Have you seen 2,5 ssd with heatsink on chips?
Sir my company has provided some Micro SD and SD cards with data on it but it is write protected. All cards are new about 6 months around but data is outdated and i cant format them tried basic tools and tricks by CMD but none of them worked. All the cards are brand new and fully readable but not writeable. What should i do or any suggestions for software.
do you have to do SPECIAL COURSE in spilling liquid into a SSD? I HAVE NEVER MANAGED TO SPILL LIQUID INTO ANY LAPTOP PC SSD ETC ETC.
What reball stencil is that?
Do the drives have the same controller?
Shouldn't you also transplant the other chip so it has its meta information and record of moved/bad blocks?
what chip would that be? :) all firmware including translator is in NAND
I run four computers; two of them have a Samsung 860 & the third 870, "how reliable are solid drives in general"?
gamer's nexus news video today showed various hardware failures from a particular company (I'm guessing they sell either parts or pre-builts) and for storage the SSDs were much more reliable than a hard drive. Hell I have a 830 in my old computer that just got retired last year. It ran for nearly 10 years and still works.
I bought more than 100 Samsung SSD during the last years and all of them working without problem.
I've been using a 500GB 860 and just got the 870 for my brother's laptop, his 2009 HDD finally began to die. I've been constantly downloading and deleting data from mine for the past 3 years with zero issues. Just updated the FW recently with no data loss, even though I made a back-up just in case. Happened to shock it 2-3 times with ESD ending in PC shut-offs. I've vaped in my room (knowingly) the first year of its use, opened it up the second year, cleared the residues with alcohol and closed it back up. All in all, given the idiotic amount of torture it endured, seems to be a pretty damn durable SSD. 😀🤘 I'm guessing the user in this video spilled straight liquid over his and kept using it without a proper clean while still keeping important non-backed up data on it. Here we are, hundreds of dollars later, witnessing his poor choices. Hope he gets his data back. 🙏
It depends. I've sold maybe 100 units of A DATA su650 and the failure rate was crazy. Something like 75%. Same for silicon power sp55. Cheap SSDs are not reliable
@@TigTex yeah I wouldn't use ADATA for anything important. Important stuff goes on samsung.
This is amazing at always but would be very nice to know (or almost know) what and why are you do what you do in pc-3000
That tool is too complex for that. You need a hands-on experience and a lot of patience to learn these functions. Possibly months-year to get comfortable with it and fully exploit possibilities
@@hddrecoveryservices I understand, and accept it but where can I learn anything about this if is don't want just randomly hit buttons and try functions. Where can I found any kind of good material for learning about this? Would be nice to hear about your path!
@@takacsi it comes with basic manuals upon purchase
Liquid damage, how?
Great video!
Hi Erkin, I have a small question. Why R studio not possible for this?
The chip is degraded with bad sectors (black dots among the green), causing read errors. Windows running R-Studio would choke and become unstable.
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cool video bro👍
Do you recommend r studio data recovery as the best data recovery software
Do you (or any hard drive recovery shop anywhere) only recover data or is it possible to refurbish the drive so it will work again
A lot of people say to just buy a new drive, but what if I want to have 1TB IDE drive or 400MB (no more, no less) IDE drive, they dont make theese anymore so if one breaks on me, I am scrued
Refurbishing hard drives with focus on further reliability is limited and very circumstantial to the type of problem.
As a result, it is not a good strategy to rely on a company's ability to refurbish.
In some countries with high population and low to no discretionary income, there is some demand for refurbished hard drives. Price is the #1 factor. Unless we are talking an electronics related failure (more rare compared to the majority of other type of failure), the problem is that refurbished won't be reliable long term and the client ends up being angry and disappointed.
On that note, there is also a rise in predatory practices, where a refurbisher hides the flaws with the drive and scam people.
Data backup is the proper strategy to not get screwed.
@@Datarecoveryguru1 oh I see, so I have to take extreme care for my older rare drives then I guess
@@Veso266 Cannot take care of the drives per se. Data backup is what needs to be done and take care of those.
@@Datarecoveryguru1 yea, I know, I am doing this already, but what does a backup count if an old computer will not recognize the modern big drives, even if I restore it to the drive
As for compact flesh cards and sd cards, those get bigger with time as well and they are not realy a harddrive replacment, and I would certenatly never store any important data on them
@@Veso266 Well, we are in 2022. You have to be on a 64bit system, so high capacity drives are recognized.
Nice work 👏 👌
Hi sir i trust and love your work ❤❤❤but i have a problem is it possible to recover data from CD, it doesn't appears on it. I have copied the data, not burnt it and after two days it disappears suddenly, it is showing empty, I don't know what to do. In that I kept a valuable informarion. I can't able to trust everyone, because no one is genuine, but I trusted u please help me 🙏😭😩🙏😭😩😩
you can exchange the flash on this boards? is it not crypted?
Encrypted? possibly. swappable? as you can see they are swappable
@@hddrecoveryservices is a Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD also swapable? I have one there i think there is the controlle gone...
My computer has a Seagate 7200.12 250GB hard drive, when it is used for school children. So when it suddenly freezes and presses the restart button. And finally it says (Reboot and Property select devices). Finally it can't be fixed, replace the new hard drive to Western Digital Caviar Blue which is 320GB.
I'm people from Indonesian
can someone explain whats the black thing he swaps and what substances are used and reason ? like the transparent liquid or the black sand
The black chip is the NAND, or basically where the files are stored. The clear gel-like substance is flux which just helps the solder paste (black “sand”) not mess up when being applied.
The chip is a NAND chip, this is where the data is housed. The clear liquid is flux, it's a cleaning agent to help with soldering. The "black sand" is solder paste, it's very small balls of solder instead of normal wire solder. Solder paste is used for surface mount devices and parts.
very useful.
Your videos could use more commentary to tell us what's going on.
how the hell do you learn something liek this ?
Read, study, trial & error.
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