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RAID technology overview: Proper and Improper Rebuild for RAID-5

Posted on 01/16/2025 by ACELab team

Improper rebuild is a mistake customers often make when trying to solve array problems on their own. This issue is complex enough to confuse a data recovery engineer. It is important to understand exactly what is happening to the data … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash – Noname (CBM2099) USB Recovery. Importance of Translator assembling

Posted on 12/04/2024 by ACELab team

Hello guys! Sometimes, Data Recovery Lab may get a USB Flash drive with a no name controller inside in the COB (chip-on-board) package. Usually such controllers are extremely cheap, and you can find them inside “10 bucks” drives from Amazon … 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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RAID technology overview: Proper and Improper Rebuild for RAID-1 (Mirror)

Posted on 10/28/2024 by ACELab team

Most RAID levels use redundancy to ensure the reliability of the array. Redundancy allows the array to continue operating without data loss if one of the drives fails. This technology was designed to save data, but if used improperly, it … Continue reading →

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Work with AFH in Seagate F3 Utility

Posted on 09/09/2024 by ACELab team

Implementation of the tool in the utility was delayed for a long time because work with the heating parameters of the read-write head required extreme caution. An incorrect choice of tactics for work with a damaged drive will lead to … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 SSD Systems. The List of Supported SSDs (regularly updated, ver. 3.5.3)

Posted on 08/19/2024 by ACELab team

Hello friends! The ACE Lab developers constantly research 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 … 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 Flash 8.2.x – adding unsupported chip ID into the software

Posted on 07/24/2023 by ACELab team

Hey guys! ACE Lab engineers regularly add new NAND memory chips into the PC-3000 Flash software database. Updates with the new XORs, NAND ID’s, ECC and dynamic XORs appears in Flash weekly. If our customer faced with the unsupported XOR … Continue reading →

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Digital Forensics: PC-3000 SSD – how to bypass the TRIM

Posted on 06/28/2023 by ACELab team

Hey there! In this article we are going to speak about the TRIM command which appears in the beginning of SSD era (around 14 years ago) and become a native feature in all existing Solid State Drives. So, what is … Continue reading →

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PC-3000. Best PC configuration for ACE Lab products in 2024

Posted on 02/03/2023 by ACELab team

Recently, users have been asking about the most comfortable hardware configuration for using PC-3000 Portable PRO, PC-3000 Flash, PC-3000 Express, PC-3000 UDMA-E. A lot of engineers are still working on computers with Core i5 2400 and 4GB of RAM, but this configuration … Continue reading →

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