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All you need to know is on the top cover label. Model: SP1604N F/W: 100-24

It is not uncommon for external drives to have physical issues. If the data on the drive is of value to you, stop connecting the drive and seek professional data recovery assistance before more damage is caused.

Can you provide the full details about the model of the drive or even a picture of the top cover? "You can give a try to RecoverIt, Stellar data recovery professional or Recuva." Don't even both wasting your time downloading the programs. If you are looking for programs that are actually used...

Quite frequently with SSDs, particularly with this model of Samsung, the firmware gets damaged due to bad NAND cells where the firmware is stored. While SSDs are very complicated for data recovery professionals to recover, there are many cases where we are able to get the data recovered. A...

The drive does not have custom firmware, but the USB bridge might do the sector size adjustment on the fly. But, that would result in the drive showing 1/8 the capacity and not the 104.9MB that is showing. That suggests that the drive itself has failed and/or is failing. Don't go back to the...

If your hard drive is showing bad sectors, the odds are it is going to get worse. If it is an ST2000DM001, they are prone to fail fairly quickly. Send it back under warranty. Any attempt to repair basically hides the bad sectors and clears the SMART warnings, but don't address the underlying...

The drive likely has week heads, bad sectors and some firmware issues, or could just have a flaky PCB. If you have valuable data on it, be sure to back it up right away. If you are unable to do so, you may need to seek the assistance of data recovery professional. At the very least, you...

99 times out of 100, the SSD has failed because a damaged firmware module got corrupt due to bad sectors in the memory. The odds of resurrecting it are slim as are the chances to recover the data by data recovery professionals. Your best bet is to replace the SSD and restore from backup.

Don't waste your time with anything easeus. Best practice for data recovery is to get a full sector-by-sector clone/image of each drive and then work with the copies in whatever data recovery programs you choose to use. Most data recovery programs have some level of ability to work with RAID...

But, it is not okay now. This drive will continue to degrade to the point of a complete failure. Backup the data and replace the drive.

While all important data should be backed up, irrespective of what it is stored on, the reason I really push it with SSDs is becasue people are naturally lazy and think that SSDs are invincible. Meanwhile, on a spinner, a deleted file can usually be recovered while that same file will be...

While I might sound like a broken record, the most important thing to focus on with SSDs is to make sure that all important data is being backed up.

In short, the drive is showing symptoms of starting to fail. The slow down is partially because of some firmware damage and I suspect that there are some bad sectors on the drive...possibly a failing head. I'm working on a similar case right now. After fixing the firmware issues, we are able...