Re: Solid State HDD Data Recovery?

From: Stefan Rother (sroat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 03:58:31 PDT

  • Next message: Eric Boltz: "RE: Solid State HDD Data Recovery?"

    Hello,
    Short answer: No. your data is/will be lost.
    Long answer:
    I don't know anything about this kind of HDDs, but if it's (SD)RAM-based  
    there's no chance of retrieving the data when the supplied power is drained.
    Physically explanation: the data of a RAM-chip is held in a small capacitor 
    for each memory cell. The capacitor loses its information if not refreshed 
    every x clock intervals.
    So its physically not possible (with RAM) to retrieve the data after some 
    milliseconds with no power.
    
    Stefan
    
    
    Am Montag, 10. September 2001 21:02 schrieben Sie:
    > Hello All!
    > I am interested in finding out if there is a way to scavenge data from a
    > Solid State HDD, as you would from a standard mechanical drive?  From what
    > I understand, as soon as power is removed from the SSD(and the built-in
    > battery is drained), all data is irretrievably lost... is this true or is
    > there a way of examining SDRAM-based drives to retrieve the data?
    >
    > Thanks in advance!
    > Eric
    >
    >
    >
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