SSD Data Recovery

Here at Elite Data Recovery we work on a single fixed fee for recovering data from any SSD that can be used with our recovery equipment.

Even if your SSD has any of the following issues, our equipment will be able to recover the data as long it is not too damaged.

  • Firmware Problems
  • Degraded NAND chips
  • Controller chip problems
  • Media that asks to be formatted when connected to a PC
  • Damaged file systems
  • Accidentally deleted/formatted media
What is an SSD?
  • A solid-state drive, or SSD, is a newer form of data storage that uses “flash memory” to store data. Generally, this is a quicker storage device than older hard disk drives (HDDs) that have physical parts, such as ‘heads’ and ‘disks’.
  • There are many advantages to using SSDs as your chosen local storage device.
  • As they have no physical moving parts, they are not bound by disk speed limitations like a HDD would be, so are much faster.
  • Another benefit of no physical moving parts, an SSD is less fragile to being knocked or dropped – but we still would not recommend this!
  • SSDs can come in a few forms.
  • First is an ‘mSATA’ SSD, these are typically found in laptops as their main storage device. They are commonly also found in PCs as primary or secondary storage.
  • Second is an NVMe M.2 SSD. These are much smaller than an ‘mSATA’ drive, similar in shape and size to a USB pen drive without its casing. These are found in newer PCs and laptops as their main storage and are typically even faster than ‘mSATA’ SSDs.
How long will the recovery process take?
  • In general, most recoveries we carry out at Elite Data Recovery take between 3 and 5 days to complete. Starting with diagnostics to the end of the process where we send your recovered data back out to you.
    The time it takes to recover your data is mainly down to the following variables:
  • The size of the data being recovered.
  • 10GB of data will recover much more quickly than 10TB
  • The current condition of the drive.
  • A mildly damaged drive will be read easier by our equipment
  • The time it takes to diagnose the problem with drive.
  • Some drives will need to pass through a series of tests before we are confident in the recovery method to use
  • The time it takes us to get the go ahead after we have done the initial diagnostics
  • We will give the results of our findings to you, and only continue if you are happy.
  • The age of the damaged media
  • Drives near the end of their life will have a harder time of being read by any equipment
  • The type of the damaged media, SATA/IDE/NAS
  • Each different type of media has a different read speed, so some will complete their recovery faster than others.