SSD Drives [ Chip Off Not Recommended Why ]

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hello Folks ,
My Self Training of PC 3000 Flash Has Started From Today .On Page 15 I read That " SSD Should Not Be Worked Like Typical NAND Device " . I Have SSD Suite Also And i Know that PC 3000 SSD works on techno mode to read from non working SSD's .My question is that if a device is dead and cannot work in techno mode also then its very necessary to work with those SSD by chip off method . I have seen that PC 3000 Flash Software has a lot of support for SSD working inside tool .So why is such a thing stated ,Is this due to the fact that a manual update is required to revamp the documentation .

PS : Love to get some comments from fellow NAND customers and colleagues

[antonvn]

Hi Amarbir,

Did you get an answer to your question? I am also very interested to know the answer, so if you have information, could you please share?

I have not had a SSD to work on yet and know nothing about the package that these chips come in, do they work in the Flash adapters or is the package totally different?

[Roman_TS]

SSD chip unsoldering is very bad idea. Most of modern SSD models have full hardware encryption, and the data on chips is totaly encrypted by AES-256 KEY or by Dynamic XOR.

PC-3000 Flash support data recovery from very old and simple SSD, like Samsung MLC, STEC, and some others. But now - this method is not working with modern drives.

If your SSD has a problem with PCB, you can try to find donor and swap NAND from patient to donor. Encryption Keys are storing inside FW, so no need to swap CPU also.

[antonvn]

Thanks Roman, this is really important information.

[gameboybin]

I know im digging this up

But since it came the era of NVME.

Can i swap NAND chips on them. And what are the new difficulties with new NVME SSDs. Thank!