Intel 330 to 520 pcb swap

[techrxgb]

Working on an investigation whereby a drive had a hole drilled through the center of the PCB. The intel 330 series drive. I was hoping someone could confirm that the NAND chips could be unsoldered and swapped into a working drive (along with the controller) and have some likelihood of retrieval?

[HaQue]

If the controller and nands are all ok, and the hole was drilled through pcb and discreets only, then I would say definitely should work if revisions are the same.
Soldering is going to be a little tedious, and you would need to take antistatic precautions, but payoff might be worth it.

But if you are swapping just NANDS to another cotroller+board (not 100% clear but I think this is what you are saying) then likelihood is it NOT working.

Should only be tried if all other options are exhausted

[data-medics]

Can you post a picture of the hole, so we can see what they actually drilled through.

[techrxgb]

here is a photo of the drive.

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[Cleanroom]

You should be able to move the NAND chips to an identical SSD. Same PCB payout and Sam Intell 330.

I would look on ebay for one if you cannot find one. All they had to do was destroy one of those chips...

[data-medics]

I'd send that one to Luke at Recovery Force: www.recoveryforce.com

[HaQue]

Thats one lucky drill hole, unlucky for evidence/data destroyer. a lesson to people that want to destroy evidence!