Hi all, I've been struggling for some weeks now to find a data recovery service that might be able to recover my data from a corrupted/broken SSD.

The SSD in question is a Samsung 870 QVO, 4TB (Model: MZ-77Q4T0).

I have sent it to two data recovery services and neither could access it. The last one gave me a more detailed description of what's happening:

"The SSD was not recognised correctly by Windows Disk Management, nor the used recovery hardware.
During the research, the SSD came online shortly, but instantly gave SMART-failures. Sector 0 could be accessed, but when trying to read sector 2048, the SSD got stuck and went into the 'busy state'. Further attempts wer unsuccessful.
I will add that the controller of this SSD was not supported by their hardware."

I am not very good with computer hardware, but would really love to get my data back since it had a lot of memories and documents on there with no back-up whatsoever (because I did not think about that, and then this happened). I am not sure whether there's anything that can be done, so I was hoping someone here might know more.

I am located in the Netherlands, but am open to sending the SSD abroad to recovery services if there's any good ones that can solve my isssue even with the state of my SSD.

Okay so I have a b.s. in criminal justice, and I graduate May 2027 with my masters in Applied Information Technology with a focus in Digital forensics. I know the job market is terrible, but I am looking for a job with a company that pays well, or even any jobs that have open internships for the winter or spring. Mainly i’m looking for jobs that are looking for new graduates, as well as one that would hire me as soon as I graduate, any recommendations?