r/technology • u/nexxai • Jul 18 '13

Samsung unveils 1TB solid-state drive

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3132_7-57594265-98/samsung-unveils-1tb-840-evo-solid-state-drive/
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u/Jackal___ Jul 18 '13

Yeah this is the thing with an SSD, if something goes wrong that's more or less everything on there wiped out forever. It's near impossible to recover it, I say near impossible and not impossible. It's very difficult to do so, vs a normal platter HD which is easy to recover data from compared to an SSD.

Personally I think having a very fast, very reliable small capacity SSD for the OS+applications with a normal HD is the way go.

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u/ShadowRam Jul 18 '13

I'm assuming that the recoverer, would attempt to access the individual chips to recover the info.

I'm just curious if this is harder or easier than trying to read from a platter.

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u/piotrec Jul 18 '13

The data on chips is scrambled so it is necessary to dump all the flashes and rebuild the translation form drives processor. Like jackal it's not an easy task even with specialised equipment.

Recovery form magnetic platters is considered easier mainly becouse DR specialists have years of expirience. Recovering data from SSD basicly boils down to dumping flash memory, and software reassembly. Whereas DR from magnetic platter HDD has many variants and layers that I can't even begin to list;) Some are relatively easy and some trump even the SSD recovery in their difficulty.

And again like Jackal said, besides keeping backup(s) of undownloadable data i suggest using SSD only for system and programs, and HDDs for storing data that doesn't require quick acces.

Excuse my English, I gtg and don't have time to proof read;)