Hello!

The customer give me this drive to retrieve his data. The original problem was slow responding and I converted the drive from USB interface to SATA interface with compatible SATA PCB and fixed the drive. And already recovered his data.

The weird thing that I recovered the data with SATA PCB. There's no encryption

has any one saw this before?

The WD10JMVW (WD Elements) USB-SATA bridge does not include an encryption chip. That's why the data wasn't encrypted.

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Sabo Computer Repairs & Data Recovery

Does it have Inic-3608 USB chip?

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SAN, NAS, RAID, Server, and HDD Data Recovery.

+1

Type the serial number into WD's warranty checker and you should see a "1TB Elements SE":
http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/warr ... sttype=end

That said, is it possible that Elements models could use an encryption-capable bridge, but that encryption is not enabled in the firmware?

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

It is not 100% correct. Sometimes it does include but encryption feature swithed off.
For the OP drive, there is possible JMS bridge.

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Angel Data Recovery

Yes sir.


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These are self-encrypting drives
Inic-3608 has an ability to encrypt data but this ability is not used for data encryption. Instead data is encrypted using Marvell chip, and it's encrypted inside the drive, meaning that no matter what the interface is (SATA or USB) user will always see data decrypted.
But because data is encrypted inside, cryptographic erase is supported (among other perks), so when you do "format", using special WD utility, new data key will be generated inside the drive and old data becomes inaccessible.

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SAN, NAS, RAID, Server, and HDD Data Recovery.

Got it.

Thanks for the info sir.

does anybody have the inic 3608 datasheet?.

Hi
Which PCB did you use, exactly?
I just have the same HDD!

Thanks