Hi all,

We're proud to announce that both our Athens and Thessaloniki labs are capable of recovering SSD drives based on SandForce controllers.

We've developed an in-house technique that actually works.

We've tried it on several SSD models carying different SandForce controllers and the results are great. Any SSD brand; any controller.

It is very time consuming though; it can take sometimes 10 weeks or more when the damage is very complex, usually we have results in 4-5 weeks.

Any questions, please email our dedicated engineer at tech[at]northwind.gr or PM me here, but first option is faster.

We're offering discounts to partner labs that want to outsource.

Best Regards,
D.

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http://www.northwind.gr
SandForce SSD Recovery
Ransomware Reverse Engineering - NoMoreRansom! partners

This is not news, ACE Data Recovery is doing a recovery for Sandforce SSD from 2014. In 2015, a new technology was introduced:
Dallas, TX - February 06, 2015 - ACE Data Recovery, a division of the ACE Data Group, LLC, announced today they have redesigned their ZCopy Ultra data extraction hardware and developed new custom software to significantly improve their SandForce-based SSD data recovery success rate.
https://www.datarecovery.net/pressreleases/pr_20150206.aspx

I can't believe there has been no response to this. This is a major achievement, amazing work.
Probably the biggest news in flash in the last few years. I don't know if any other labs already have gotten this far, but I certainly haven't heard about it. congratulations

Yes, very nice work. And you did it without a special partnership with Sandforce like DriveSaves advertises.

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Data Medics - Hard Drive, SSD, and RAID Data Recovery Service Company

Great news and good work Dimitris.

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Digitalsupport Data Recovery
https://digitalsupport.dk

Do you want to share with us?? (kidding).

Good work, congratulations!!

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http://www.pclab.com.pt facebook.com/PCLAB.A.T
ACELab partner

Thanks guys!

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http://www.northwind.gr
SandForce SSD Recovery
Ransomware Reverse Engineering - NoMoreRansom! partners

Nice work Sir!

At last someone we can trust to recover Sandforce!!

Now to find some clients who are actually willing to pay!

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PC Image Data Recovery
http://www.pcimage.co.uk

New!! HDD-PCB.COM for all your PCB and donor HDD requirements!

It is not very difficult. Just need ECC, AES, unpack, RAISE and FTL.
I did it several years ago.
https://www.datarecovery.net/pressreleases/pr_20150206.aspx

Interesting. To date I have never heard of a successful SandForce chip-off anecdote. I know Dimitris hasn't specifically said this is chip off, and it may not be. But many, many calls for anyone to report a successful SandForce recovery beyond PCB repair have gone unanswered.

If you also are in the position to offer what Northwind are, then also, good work.

I also wondered about the line " As a result of our partnership with SandForce". can you expand on that?

Anyway, nice to see some progress on the SF Front.

Thumbs up!

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

Congrats ,
Very Nice Work ,No Idea what The charges Are And If People in India Would Pay But i Have a Drive With This Controller To Which i Have Never Experimented And Waited If Acelab Will Have a solution .Most Prop they Will Wake Up Now And Try Implementing Something ,There must be that some little thing their reverse engineer team is missing

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Regards
Amarbir S Dhillon , Chandigarh Data Recovery Labs [India]
Logical,Semi Physical And Physical Data Recovery
Website-> http://www.chandigarhdatarecovery.com

Very interesting to hear. Well done. As @pcimage states, someone to trust with these. Next time a Sand Force based SSD is in, I'll be in touch.

Best regards,
John.

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CDR - Manchester Data Recovery Services
0161 408 4857
http://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk/

Yes, chip off recovery is possible, if for some reason you have already removed the NAND chips from the PCB, send us a PCB with the CPU also, there is the OTP memory, see attached picture.

Working with the manufacturer goes strictly under the NDA, we can not disclose the details of the cooperation, but 99% of the work for the development of data recovery technology was done by our engineers.

The average recovery time of 2-5 weeks depends on the capacity and type of memory used.
Success rate is almost 100%.
We also provide a special discount for the resellers.

https://www.datarecovery.net/pressreleases/pr_20150206.aspx

Congratulations! Nice job!