Solid State Drives (SSD) use NAND or DRAM memory instead of mechanical platters found in traditional HDDs. Thanks to this design they are much faster, more shock-resistant and generate less noise. However, as with all flash-based storage, they are also less durable and more prone to electronic or firmware-level failures. With hundreds of different controller families on the market, SSD data recovery is often far more complex than traditional hard drive recovery.
SSD data recovery – technological mode
Technological (factory) mode allows us to recover data in cases of firmware corruption, damaged translator, or internal mapping errors. If an SSD is electronically functional but:
- not detected by any computer,
- detected as SATAFIRM or similar generic name,
- visible as 0 MB capacity,
- returns only “00” or unreadable sectors,
— then technological mode is often the correct and safe method to extract user data.
SUPPORTED CONTROLLER FAMILIES:
Silicon Motion: SM2246LT, SM2246XT, SM2246EN, SM2256K
Phison: PS3105, PS3108, PS3109, PS3110
Toshiba/Phison: TC58NC1000 / PS3110
Marvell Van Gogh / Van Gogh 2: 88SS9174, 88SS9187, 88SS9189, 88SS9190, 88SS1074
Samsung family
Indilinx Barefoot: IDX100 / IDX110
OCZ Barefoot 3 (IDX500Mxx)
JMicron / Toshiba: JMF616, TC58NCF616GDT
Intel Postville (PC29AS21AA0)
LAMD (LM87800)
We also recover data from SandForce-based SSDs, as long as the drive is not stuck in a permanent BSY state.
NVMe Data Recovery – modern PCIe technology
NVMe drives use the PCIe interface and a completely different command set than SATA SSDs. They provide significantly higher performance but also introduce more complex failure modes. Typical cases we handle include:
- damaged NVMe controller or power management circuits,
- firmware corruption resulting in 0 GB / 0 MB capacity,
- drives visible only under “PCIe storage device” without user-accessible namespaces,
- mapping table corruption after sudden power loss,
- overheated modules losing communication,
- interrupted firmware update (Samsung, WD, Kingston etc.).
Thanks to specialized NVMe diagnostic tools, NAND readers and our experience with controller-level reconstruction, we are able to recover data from most mainstream NVMe drives — including Samsung, Western Digital, Kingston, Crucial, Adata, Goodram, and others.