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PC-3000 Flash. Circuit Board. Power supply features

Posted on 02/05/2016 by ACELab team

Due to the fact that many people have a problem with PC-3000 Circuit Board adapter, we suggest to take a look on the principles of the power supply commutation for different devices. Here you can see appearance of the PC-3000 … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 HDD. How to find out the problems in WD Marvell drives

Posted on 02/03/2016 by ACELab team

There are several situations could be with a Western Digital drive. Let’s take a look the most popular of them and discuss about diagnostics and solutions

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PC-3000 for HDD. Basic HDD diagnostics procedure

Posted on 01/29/2016 by ACELab team

Sometimes DR specialists start examining the drive from the wrong point that leads to unnecessary wasting of time or even to the situation when the drive becomes unrecoverable. We want to present to you our recommended procedure of basic examining … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with external ROM

Posted on 01/26/2016 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost. The idea is to rewrite the compatible donor ROM image to donor … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Building ROM image from SA data on WD Marvell drives with internal ROM using version 6.X

Posted on 01/21/2016 by ACELab team

The method can be used to recover original ROM image and then write it into donor PCB when original PCB was damaged, lost, or original ROM was lost in PC-3000 version 6.0 and later. The “Building ROM image from SA … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Methods of data correction. Voltage control

Posted on 12/25/2015 by ACELab team

In our final part of article Methods of data correction, we will speak about voltage control. In which cases voltage control can help us to fix errors? If to say in a few words – it can help only in … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 for HDD. Soldering of SATA connector to SAMSUNG SPINPOINT USB PCB

Posted on 12/25/2015 by ACELab team

We get many questions from our customers about how to determine the points where to solder SATA connector on SAMSUNG Spinpoint USB drive. Here is the easiest method. There are two types of USB PCBs: 1. With separate SATA-USB bridge;

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PC-3000 Flash. Methods of Data Correction. Readout

Posted on 12/18/2015 by ACELab team

In previous article we spoke about ECC correction – first and the main way of bit error correction. Sometimes this feature might be very effective, but in case if your NAND chip base on TLC architecture, there is a high … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Methods of Data Correction. ECC

Posted on 12/16/2015 by ACELab team

In this line of articles we will speak about different ways of dump correction. I think that it is not a secret that during NAND memory chip reading some bit errors might appear. The number of bit errors depends from … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD. How to plug Samsung 840 EVO / PM851 through terminal

Posted on 12/11/2015 by ACELab team

Starting from the version of PC-3000 SSD 2.0.3, it become possible to recover Samsung 840 EVO, Samsung PM 851 and Samsung 850 Pro drives. One of the main problem of this drives – is a very-very bad quality of NAND … Continue reading →

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