Ok, now I've heard from two different sources... one says yes, the other syas no. Which is right? The one that says the data can be retireved quoted a 5 year old article that spoke about SRAM... is SRAM the same as flash ram? I know that flash ram holds its data for a while after power is removed. However, this drive is utilizing SDRAM. Is this the same thing or far different from flash? Thanks! Eric -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Rother [mailto:sroat_private] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 6:59 AM To: FORENSICSat_private Subject: 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 > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. > For more information on this free incident handling, management > and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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