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PC-3000 SSD. Apple SM0XXXG AHCI drive Samsung recovery process

Posted on 12/15/2025 by ACELab team

Based on ACE Lab’s extensive experience in SSD research, the most common problem with non-functional SSDs is damage to the firmware, specifically critical parts like the translator or service area system blocks. The surest solution for damaged SSDs is to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD Systems. The List of Supported SSDs (regularly updated, ver. 3.7.4)

Posted on 08/06/2025 by ACELab team

Hello friends! The ACE Lab constantly researches drives, which results in a rapid expansion of the Support List for most of the modern SSDs. So with the PC-3000 Systems that support Solid State Drives, you will always be on the … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. Initio INIC-6081 recovery

Posted on 05/20/2025 by ACELab team

Hello, dear PC-3000 Users! Sometimes Data Recovery Labs may receive a very strange SSD that may be based on an unknown controller. Our Technical Support dpt received one of such weird drives. Let’s figure out how to deal with it!

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Intel Optane Memory H10 (H20) Series Data Recovery

Posted on 03/04/2025 by ACELab team

In this article, we will look at the specifics of recovering data from Intel Optane Memory H10 (H20) series. These are NVMe M.2 SSDs often found in laptops and monoblocs with Intel processors. These drives use two types of memory: … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Data Extractor. An easy way to make a task on a network drive

Posted on 11/19/2024 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! Modern drives become bigger and bigger every day, and we must use large drives in our PC for current tasks to save customers data on them. A lot of us have more than one computer with PC-3000 in … Continue reading →

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Western Digital SMR. Formatted Drive Solution.

Posted on 03/06/2024 by ACELab team

Modern SMR drives are very sensitive due to a new shingled recording technology. The writing density becomes higher, and also, the internal processes in the drive firmware almost never stop. Even when the drive is idle, bands are rewritten to optimize … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. The Importance of having a powerful PC (UPDATED JAN 2026)

Posted on 02/23/2024 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! As you may already know Flash recovery requires many more hardware resources than data recovery with PC-3000 Express, PC-3000 UDMA or PC-3000 Portable III Systems. When you have to deal with HDDs, all complex operations are produced by the … Continue reading →

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A brick named Rosewood

Posted on 01/19/2024 by ACELab team

Disclaimer: the article is specially written in an easy form to simplify the perception of the information presented; despite this, the material should be taken as seriously as possible. Currently, we receive a lot of modern SMR drives for data … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. How to choose the correct loader for SM2258XT/SM2259XT/XT2

Posted on 10/13/2023 by ACELab team

Hello everyone! ACE Lab Technical Support department gets a lot of requests from your side about modern Solid State Drives based on such popular SMI controllers as SM2258XT, SM2259XT, SM2259XT2. All these controllers are fully supported in PC-3000 UDMA, Express … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. Western Digital 4F ROM Module recovery mode

Posted on 08/07/2023 by ACELab team

Hello Friends! All of you already know that the PC-3000 can recover ROM from old Western Digital Marvell drives with External (in separate chip) and Internal (in MCU) ROM.  However, it was a problem to recover ROM from newer families, … Continue reading →

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