Hello HDD Guru !

First time poster!

I have an IT repair shop in Adelaide, and a friend of mine has asked me to recover the data from their micro SD card.

I have a bit of experience with Data Recovery. I have a Rapidspar and recently upgraded about 6 months ago to an MRT ultra. We do get the occasional USB / Thumbdrive in etc.

So , two questions.

1. Is a PC3000 Flash worth the investment in time AND learning ? With the way my business is set up, I can just about spend 90% of my time doing what I want.
2. Does anybody have a pinout guide for this micro SD card ?

Is PC-3000 Flash worth it, sure if you get in enough cases to make it worthwhile. The fact that they have a lot of ready-built solutions for some of the most common flash devices can make it one of the easiest systems to use (for some cases). With the spiderboard you may not even have to do any soldering to monoliths such as this.

However, you should know that flash recovery is no walk in the park. It's frustrating and tedious and most people (myself included) just don't have the patience for it. You can easily spend a week working on a case only to finally find that it was a massive waste of time.

There are some drawbacks to the PC-3000 system. For one, the reader hardware doesn't seem to be the best. There have been a number of cases where a cheap flash extractor reader got a better dump than the PC-3000 could even with multiple re-reads. But, generally speaking Ace is a great company that offers excellent support and regularly updates their systems.

Also, don't expect that Ace will provide you with every monolith pinout. That one you show there isn't in their database. In fact, I don't even see it in Arvika's database of ones he's figured out. So there will be no easy path to recovery in this case I suspect.

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

Well,
To start I Would Suggest you think ,Would you like to really venture into Flash Recovery ? . Do you have the time and patience for this ,Let me share last two cases ,

Case 1 : Dead Sandisk pendrive ,Both VNR and PC3K flash gave data ,The backup file by client does not work ,Might be missing pages in construction of logical image ,Case closed after 1 week hard work

Case 2 : PS 2251-07-V Kingston controller with This POS NAND They used and I have spend a week just to get bit errors out and this damn thing is still not over .

PS : We have a bunch of engineers ,who can take nand dumps and recover data ,I can do this for 75% cases with VNR these days ,Arvika Is even more experienced then me ,So is Haque ,Jermyb ,Sean Etc ,There are other like greyDkang labs ,Mark Jr aka kuttingegde etc etc

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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