Recent content by Mon12

Thank you for all the links!!

Can you give me a link to these pro forums? Thanks much.

That's one interesting thread, lol. Where do you have the info from regarding WD's data recovery partner, that they actually use PC-3000? I'm really interested in that

There was no underlying question. Before I even want to play around to see if I can do anything with the data on the SSD (if it's accessible at all with any software), I've felt the need to get more information, educate myself a bit. And how's that relevant to my question, again? (Please don't...

Yes. Do you think that's <Mod Edit>? I'm genuinely interested. (As far as supported models) "Helium" models are not listed on that page as far as I could see... But I don't know much about that technology. Yeah I'm sure PC-3000 does that kind of stuff. I did reverse engineering myself a...

OK, thank you for your input. I was interested in what's the consensus on this topic, but apparently you are all saying it's not likely, as it is different from how a HDD works.

I am not the right audience for this advice. My question is: Do you know if trying to read it can cause further damage like with an HDD?

I don't know, checking Seagate's vs WD's site, WD's data recovery page lists more supported products than Seagate's. Including the model I've bought. PC-3000 does not list it as supported on their page. I do not know if reputable companies that have access to inside information would need the...

Yes I was told this model has some encryption for it. I'm not sure if this PC-3000 is the only commercial tool, I saw that it doesn't support many new models, yet I've seen that for example Western Digital teamed up with a data recovery company so that company supports all WD models according to...

Thanks. I can't tell if it's set to read only. I can only read the model (it shows as EVO 970 because this is the OEM version of EVO 970). The filesystem is not showing, Windows wanted to initialise it so it doesn't see any MBR on it. Yes I would like to save data off it... So you are saying...

Thank you, I will try this. But can you answer my question about whether me attempting to power on and read the SSD, like, if I were to try and raw read the whole disk, won't damage it more? Like with an HDD? Is it a risk that I should be paying attention to and manage in some way? If I tried...

It's a Samsung PM981 M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD. It's got some problem with it, but I don't know more than that. I got it into a USB rack now, but is it a good idea to try and access it several times, can that damage it further? Or as long as I don't try to write to it, only read from it, it won't degrade...

I had a Samsung PM981 1TB OEM SSD die on me after 3 years and I never had the power cut as I always had a good battery in my laptop; the documentation for the SSD model claims the Mean Time Between Failure is as high as 1,500,000 hours! And that the Annual Failure Ratio is 0.4%... well, I don't...

Thank you, that could make sense too. The only one HDD I ever had die on me was also in a laptop, though I was less surprised about that one because I figured that it can get damaged in a laptop easier due to moving parts. (I had very little data loss for that one, sigh.) Funnily enough, that...

OK, thanks to everyone for all the replies! PS: It wasn't at 98% for a year, it was more like for some months or so. It was at 90% and over 90% for a year in total though.