HDD GURU FORUMS

I am getting a lot of requests for Sandforce recoveries. This one has a green and a red LED on, but not detected. Ive seen a lot of posts of sleep bugs etc.
Are these drives still a dead end? Is it even worth hooking up a serial to see whats going on? Forums abound with user reports, but nothing really to go on except "I hate OCZ" or "I hate corsair"

Further to this, I would advise against going to Google, control clicking on the first 30 pages of "Sandforce red green led not detected" and reading them. You will probably start losing your faith in this species as I am starting to. I have learnt that Spectec is just a fake company for Micron to offload their dodgy chips to, SSD reviewers get paid by OCZ to give favourable reviews of their dodgy stuff, or swap out Coarsair if you want in the previous statement, it makes no difference.. And if you have a drive that hasn't failed, then forget Murpheys law about speaking too soon.. get on the forum and start sprouting"I have had this drive in for a year and no problems at all." Do Not touch wood.

Oh, and any information on the actual issue... Ha, you wish.

now pardon me while I go sue Modern Motor for saying My 1985 Gemini was a great car as I now have a blown water hose. I am off to sue the journalist and Holden and the water hose people. Don't ever buy a Holden, buy a Ford. or is it the other way around? I forget.
bah!

HaQue................ are you OK?!!?

I am now!

Just a little frustrated with 4 jobs this week no solution yet. 64GB MicroSD, 32GB MicroSD, 2x Sandforce. It is a lot of dumping and file transferring to play with these.

I will say it.. If you design encryption between controller and NAND, that isn't for user file security, or dynamic XOR... Booo to you!

However I have had some success today with a SM321Q CC that core v6 failed to get a good result but manually doing it in v5 got about 500 good, and 100 broken files... and the broken ones were all the stupid mac ones starting with a period, and MS Word Temp files... a 100% result in the end.. Along with the other one in the other thread with the Legend Controller, at least somethings going right.

The only saving grace i have found with the Sandforce nightmare is that 3-4-% of them do respond to a light bake in the re-flow oven..

I still haven't figured out if its due to dry joints, or if im just getting lucky and the bake is causing some sort of molecular change in the silicon wherever the fault might reside.

Interesting, thanks for the info. I guess for the simplicity of the process, it is worth trying. I have heard the same with BGA chipped flash drives, though it was just an anecdote of it working for a case or 2.