Using JTAG to extract data from a dead SSD drive

[Alexander Firsov]

Did anyone use JTAG to extract user data from memory chips of the dead SSD drive without desoldering them? Theoretically it is possible even on the dead SSD drive. I used SEGGER JTAG interace 10 years ago with mobile phones to dump all flash memory contents into a file. For that we need to know exactly what registers to initialize in order to map the memory. I used to disassemble the firmware to obtain this information (ARM processor binary code with IDA disassembler).