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Watching the advertising videos from a lot of other data recovery companies, I'm always seeing an oscilloscope with a sine wave on it. I'm well aware of what an oscilloscope is and what it does, I just can't see any reason to need one for most types of data recovery. Do any of you actually use...

Here's another which I think came from a Seagate. Hard to say, it's just from a bin of old bad heads:

So I just got a new microscope, which is much better than what I've had previously. Just look at the detail you can see of a slider at really good magnification: It looks like a Klingon Bird of War...must be some Trekkies at WD.

Threads like this is why Tom's Hardware should be shut down: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id- ... l#18806016 You disagree with one idiot moderator, who is flat out lying to someone then you get banned. Perhaps we can all chime in and tell the mod what an idiot he is before I get banned...

I think our constantly changing their spam messages is finally starting to get noticed. I've actually been contacted by one such company who's known to occasionally spam like that asking about having an actual Software Rep account on here. As long as they make clear that they are...

I'm pretty sure this drive has bad heads, but just looking for some confirmation. It spins up, I hear repeated SA accessing in a rhythmic repeating pattern (almost like clicking but softer). Then it comes ready and allows terminal. Here's what I get in terminal though: Then it locks and...

So, has anyone found a reader for these new memory cards Samsung is rolling out yet? I'm intrigued by Micron's description that it uses a serial interface: Compared to eMMC: Looks almost like it's using SATA channels internally. Perhaps a UFS to SATA adapter board will be in order.

I'm finally starting to see some results of my SEO work. Loving seeing this: Take THAT DriveSavers! This is nice to see too:

OK, I'm creating this sticky to just keep track of which preamp type is in which of these drives. Given how many head swaps we are doing on these, I think it'd be nice to get it down to a little better science, so perhaps we can more loosely match these when the exact part number isn't...

Anyone else here having customers with issues opening their old iPhotos library in the new MacOS? I've had a few recent ones where 100% of sectors were recovered, yet the new Photo's app says the database is corrupted. Apple's solution is to "update to the latest version" which doesn't help...

Boy would I love to build a RAID 5 in my PC-3000 machine using a half dozen of these babies: https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Samsu ... 79174.aspx Could store a whole lot of HDD images at really high speed that way. If I only hade $60,000 to throw at it.

Figure this is as good a place as any to keep track of the less than perfect donor matches that end up working out even though they probably shouldn't. Here's mine from today: Patient Model: HTS725032A9A364 P/N: 0A73293 MLC: DA3247 Date: 05 Sep 10 Headmap: 1 2 3 Donor Model: HTS725050A9A364...

So I've got an odd case here. Model: WD20EARS-00MVWB0 PCB: 2060-771698-002 Rev A Drive was described as stopped working after moving the computer. They took it to the local computer tech, who said it wasn't spinning and referred them here. On my evaluation I find that the drive is in fact...

So here's something I just gleaned from a T13 email series that I've been privy to. It's a list of all vendor specific S.M.A.R.T. attributes by vendor as well as the basic generic ones. Not sure why it'd be useful, but you never know. Here's the list:

So I'm on Tom's hardware a minute ago and I see this pop up on the side of the page: It's a Seagate branded chat widget on the storage section of Tom's Hardware forum!!! :lol: I wonder if they are hoping to do some damage control over all the bad press they are getting when people keep...

So I generally avoid phone recoveries because it's not very profitable and usually a huge time waster. But, I've got one of those insistent customers who wants me to look at their phone for them. The phone is an iPhone 4S stuck at the iTunes connect screen. I've already attempted doing the...

I'm starting to see why people hate data recovery companies. Many of them are just plain despicable criminals who lie, cheat and steal from their customers. Today I get in a Seagate ST2000MD001 (probably should have been a typical media cache fix). Unfortunately they went to another data...

This is the controller: SM3255EN Q AA I can PM you later with links to the dumps if you want to have a quick look. Not that I want you to waste any time on it, it's just a favor job anyway that I'm using as a test case to learn this program. There's no $$$ on this one. There's nothing in...

I think this here is actually the solution for this chip: http://www.pc-3000flash.com/solbase/sol ... 1&lang=eng But I'm guessing that Ace has their own naming structure for these XOR patterns. I don't see anything resembling "ID_XOR 91" in Rusolut's XOR's. Anyone have an idea which one this...

OK, so I'm working on a 32Gb single NAND case here which I'm thinking is a bit non-standard (as most are I realize). The chip has no markings, but ID's as "8988244BA9" In the VNR DB I find two different page sizes listed with this NAND: 8640 (all but one show this), and 8592 (only one shows...