Tag Archives: NAND

PC-3000 Flash. How to Recover Data from the NAND Flash Drives with the COB (Chip on Board) Memory Chips

Posted on 08/28/2020 by ACELab team

Hello friends! The COB (Chip On Board) memory chips present a challenge to data recovery engineers trying to recover data from them. The main obstacles lie in their internal structure: under the coating of black plastic, there is just a … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Monolith pinout determination guide. Variant 2

Posted on 12/29/2016 by ACELab team

This familiarization article doesn’t contain nuances of technical procedure and can’t cover ends and outs of pinout determination. So if you don’t have practice in monolith soldering then we advise to play for safety and don’t start it. This process … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. Image building with Block Number

Posted on 12/23/2016 by ACELab team

Nowadays exist a lot of different controllers which are using different types of markes in SA for sorting all blocks together. As everybody knows, sometimes we can use information about marker and build image with full folder structure if we … 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 Flash. Compact Flash recovery. SM2234H

Posted on 11/04/2015 by ACELab team

Compact Flash cards – are the most fastest memory cards in the market. The main secret of CF – is a very powerful controller, which has direct access to several physical memory chips, which are placed on the CF PCB. The architecture of … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to recover data from a monolith (microSD card)

Posted on 10/12/2015 by ACELab team

Nowadays a lot of modern NAND flash devices use a new type of architecture, where the interface, the controller and memory chips are integrated into one common ceramic layer. We call it Monolithic structure. Until recently, all memory cards like SD, … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to use dump of memory chip from other readers

Posted on 06/05/2015 by ACELab team

When you read memory chip in PC-3000 Flash reader its raw image is stored into “dmp” file (you can find this file in folder of task) sector by sector. Reared creates the dump of chip in accordance with memory chip … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to unsolder BGA/LGA-52 memory chips

Posted on 06/05/2015 by ACELab team

This video will describe the procedure of unsoldering memory chips in BGA/LGA-52 package. Don’t forget to turn on the English subtitles and annotations! Current Video does not contain any sound! Only subtitles in Russian and in English!

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PC-3000 Flash. How to detect the correct order of memory chips

Posted on 06/05/2015 by ACELab team

PC-3000 Flash  allows users to change or manipulate the order of already read memory dumps from the NAND memory chips. This option is found under “Transform Graph” section once the reading process of all memory chips is completed. However, there … Continue reading →

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PC-3000 Flash. How to improve quality of dumps using Readout and ReadRetry feature

Posted on 06/04/2015 by ACELab team

Starting from PC-3000 Flash SSD Edition ver. 6.2.1 new function of readout has been added. This feature allows to apply auto verification + ECC and reread bad pages from memory chips with better quality result. Modern memory chips contain a … Continue reading →

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