HDD GURU FORUMS

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?

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

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

here is a photo of the drive.

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...

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

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