Have you ever wondered why your computer says your disk drive has a lower capacity than the package it came in? For example, let’s say you just bought a shiny new 2.5″ 5 TB portable hard drive. You plugged it in; you waited in suspense as its five platters and ten heads finally overcame and […]
Intel Optane SSD is a discontinued line of solid state storage devices that differs from traditional solid state drives by the fact that two different kinds of storage are utilized in one device: NAND memory, like a traditional SSD, and 3D XPoint (“crosspoint”) memory, a more exotic kind of flash memory jointly developed by Intel […]
We recently completed a flash recovery case where the drive was not repairable, and a chip-off recovery was not, at first, successful. Once Clint had determined that the device was not physically repairable, it came to me to dump the memory chip to attempt a logical recovery. The controller on the device was a Chipsbank […]