I have a 16GB Data Stick Pro by Centon. Looking for a working parts drive, but must contain same flash config and controller. Trying to avoid buying 100 of these and hoping for a good match. Attached is a picture of the drive.

Controller: SM3257L AA
Flash x2: Dynet D27UCG8T2MYR

and who told you changing parts will get you your data back?

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Flash extractor and PC3000 do not read this chip correctly. FE support said they have had luck changing chips to a matching device.

Best of luck changing that Flash Chip....

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Have you removed the flash chip yet?

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Have a lot of this memory on my lab. It is really pain in the ass :/ I think swap nand to other is not so good solution.

We are working on solution to read it better.

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I don't think moving flash to another device will help.

I would expect the problem with the stick is that the memory has degraded to a level that the onboard controller cannot ECC properly, so moving it will not help.

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I agree with that.

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From their post, I took it that the FE hardware was having the issue reading the chip. Not that there was a problem with the chips themselves. Why else would it be listed in the problem chips section?

If I cannot read the chips with either reader then I think it is at least worth the attempt.

I agree that if FE is not reading the chip properly, and everything else is ruled out, it is worth trying.
Just depends on who's paying and deciding the cost, or if you want to do it for learning/hobby to see if it works.
I would try it.

I would be interested to know what are the factors that make the chip harder to read? tighter/different specs or what

Maybe the V3 of the reader of PC3000 Flash is able to read it properly.

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