If you’ve lost data from a Solid State Drive (SSD), we can help get the data back.
Although SSDs offer many advantages over traditional hard drives, they are still delicate electronic devices that can fail at any moment. Many of the skills & tools we’ve developed over the last 20 years working with hard drives also apply to SSDs, however SSDs also bring some unique challenges.
Turn Off The Drive ASAP
If you’ve lost data from an SSD, you must power it off as soon as you can. SSDs use very complex algorithms to store your files. You might expect your data to just be written to each chip in sequence until they fill up, however SSDs spread pieces of your files across multiple data chips. When things go wrong, the SSD may lose track of all those pieces, or worse may even start reusing them for new data.
Turning off the SSD will avoid the following problems:
- Windows / macOS / Software Update downloading files in the background and overwriting your lost data
- Internal SSD commands automatically shifting data around the device to reduce wear on certain chips
- Scheduled services like email downloading files to disk
- Browsing the internet writing cache & temp files to disk
What Next?
Contact us as soon as you can, and we’ll give you specific advice about your problem. If you need the data back, we’ll usually suggest a free diagnosis. There are an unbelievable number of variations of SSDs, even within drives from the same brand. Often the only way to know for sure what type of SSD you have is to read the markings from the controller chip. Sometimes the controller chip is visible externally, but other times we need to open the protective shell.
Supported SSDs for Data Recovery
The barrier to entry for SSD manufacturing is considerably lower than it is for hard drives. Anyone with the ability to manufacture a circuit board can build an SSD using off-the-shelf components. This is why you probably wouldn’t recognise half the SSD brands on Amazon. Even big brand manufacturers like Sandisk & Kingston have used generic components in their SSDs. We have a list of known supported devices below, however this list is not exhaustive. If you have an SSD problem, it’s always best to contact us. If we can’t confirm without seeing the device, we’ll usually offer a free diagnosis to find out.
We have confirmed support for the following SSDs
Don’t worry if you can’t find your SSD in the list. Many other SSDs are either relabelled versions of these, or similar enough that we can still work with them.
- ADATA SP550
- ADATA SU650
- ADATA SU800
- ADATA XPG SX7000
- AMD Radeon R3
- AMD Radeon R5
- AMD Radeon R7
- Apacer A52280P2
- Apacer AS350 Panther
- CFast Lexar Professional 3400
- Corsair Extreme series
- Corsair Force LS
- Corsair Force LX
- Corsair Nova
- Crucial BX100
- Crucial BX500
- Crucial C300
- Crucial C400
- Crucial M225
- Crucial M4
- Crucial M500
- Crucial M550
- Crucial MX100
- Crucial MX200
- Crucial V4
- Gigabyte GSM2NE8
- GOODRAM CX100
- GOODRAM CX300
- GOODRAM S400U
- HP EX900
- Intel 320
- Intel 510
- Intel 710
- Intel X18
- Intel X25
- KingDian S200
- KingSpec PA25
- Kingston A1000
- Kingston A400
- Kingston HyperX Savage
- Kingston KC1000
- Kingston SMSM15S3
- Kingston SSDNow KC400
- Kingston SSDNow UV300
- Lexar NM600
- Lite On LCH-256V2S-11
- Lite-On MU3
- LiteON MU X
- Micron C300
- Micron C400
- NeoForza Zion NFP03
- OCZ (Toshiba) Trion 100
- OCZ (Toshiba) Trion 150
- OCZ ARC 100
- OCZ Solid 2 series
- OCZ Vector 150
- OCZ Vector 180
- OCZ Vector 480
- OCZ Vertex 1
- OCZ Vertex 450
- OCZ Vertex 460
- OCZ Vertex 460A
- Patriot Blast
- Patriot Blaze
- Patriot Hellfire
- Patriot Hellfire M2
- Patriot P200
- Patriot Scorch M2
- Patriot Spark
- Plextor M3
- Plextor M3 Pro
- Plextor M5 Pro Extreme
- Plextor M5S
- Plextor M6V
- Plextor M9Pe
- Plextor S2C
- PNY CS1111
- QUMO Novation 3D
- RevuAhn 850X
- RevuAhn 885
- RevuAhn 900T PRO
- Samsung 470
- Samsung 830
- Samsung 840
- Samsung 840 Evo
- Samsung 840 Pro
- Samsung 850 Pro
- Samsung CM871
- Samsung MLC
- Samsung PM810
- Samsung PM830
- Samsung PM840
- Samsung PM841
- Samsung PM851
- Sandisk Genesis
- Sandisk SSD Plus
- Sandisk Ultra II
- Sandisk Ultra Plus
- Sandisk Vulcan
- Sandisk X110
- Seagate Fast SSD
- Seagate One Touch SSD
- Silicon Power Slim S55
- Silicon Power Slim S60
- Smartbuy Firestone
- Smartbuy Ignition 2
- Smartbuy Ignition 4
- Smartbuy Jolt
- Smartbuy M8
- Smartbuy Revival
- Smartbuy Revival 2
- Smartbuy S11T
- Smartbuy S9M
- Toshiba Q300
- Transcend MTE110S
- Transcend TS256GSSD360S
- Western Digital WD Blue
- Western Digital WD Green
eMMC (Single Chip SSDs)
UFS Chips
We have more information about UFS chip recovery here.