PC-3000 Flash and SSD Data Recovery Expert Training

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PC-3000 Flash Data Recovery Technologies for NAND-Based Drives Training

Digital forensics experts and data recovery professionals, who need to restore damaged NAND-based drives, including MicroSD Cards (monoliths), are invited to attend.

This training course provides you a comprehensive pathway of all steps necessary for NAND Flash memory and monoliths data recovery with the help of PC-3000 Flash.

PC-3000 Flash is a professional solution for recovering data from all types of flash drives: USB Flash Drives, SD cards, microSD cards, etc.

The training classes are fully equipped with 8 individual workstations with everything necessary to train a data recovery engineer under the guidance of the highly experienced ACE Lab instructors.

Advantages
  • Exclusive training on NAND technologies from ACE Lab in the USA
  • Unique opportunity to acquire the skills of recovering data from damaged microSD (monoliths)
  • Efficient combination of theoretical knowledge and numerous practical cases of data recovery
  • Individual approach is guaranteed to every student
  • Official certificate upon completion of the training
  • A free month of authorized ACE Lab Technical Support for PC-3000 Flash

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Course Schedule
  • 1st day Theoretical overview of NAND memory theory. How PC-3000 Flash can help.
  • 2nd day Detailed study of the PC-3000 Flash functionality. Real-life examples followed by practical exercises based on real cases.
  • 3rd day Practical tasks helping to consolidate the new knowledge and to gain a complete picture of how to perform NAND data recovery and how to use the PC-3000 Flash in the most efficient way.
  • 4th day Monoliths. How to prepare monolith chips for soldering. Practical tasks helping to understand how to recover data from monoliths: disassemble drives, soldering technical pins for dump reading and data recovery, etc.
  • 5th day SSD – Techniques for diagnosis and determination of malfunction, and two approaches to data recovery from SSD drives using PC-3000 SSD

 

FLASH DATA RECOVERY EXPERT TRAINING


1. Introduction & Concepts

  • Structure flowchart of NAND memory devices.
  • Classification of damages of Flash memory based devices.


2. Memory Chips

  • Types of memory chip cases.
  • Memory chip internals.
  • Memory chip identification. Degrees of importance.
  • Characteristics of reading algorithm. SDR and DDR chips.



3. Organization of Information Storage in NAND Memory Based Drives

  • Tendencies in drive development.
  • Page and Block in memory chip.
  • Memory chip ID.
  • Block Diagram of Controller Operation.


4. PC-3000 Flash System

  • Structure and application.
  • Main strategy and structure of PC-3000 Flash.
  • Task structure.
  • Stages of Working on Data Recovery Tasks.


5. Reading of Memory Chips

  • Readout circuit chip dump.
  • Reference memory chips.
  • “Direct” readout chip.
  • What PC-3000 Flash can do during chip reading into dump.


6. Data Preparation Algorithm

Methods of Data Preparation:

  • Join by bytes.
  • Bitwise inversion.
  • XOR elimination.
  • Page transformation.
  • Internal Interleave elimination.
  • External Interleave elimination.
  • Additional operations.


7. ECC – Bit Error Correction

  • Causes of errors.
  • ECC type Auto detection.
  • Additional ways of improving data quality result.


8. Verification of Applied Data Preparation Steps

  • Raw Recovery.
  • Verification of applied data preparation steps.
  • Data preparation implementation. Ways to check if data preparation is done correctly.


9. Algorithms of Image Generation

  • Block Number.
  • Different types of markers.
  • Translators.
  • Image building based on data analysis.


10. Data Recovery in Automatic Mode

  • Global Solution Center.
  • Additional research modes.


11. Analysis and Improvement of Built Image

  • Data quality analysis.
  • Versions for block.
  • Shifts between banks.
  • Disk analysis.
  • Partition analysis.
  • Addition of virtual partition.

PRACTICE:

At this training seminar you will be taught to solve wide variety of tasks from the easiest to very complex and even unusual ones. Each attendee can choose difficulty level and try to solve this type of task. The technique of drive dismantling, memory chip unsoldering and their preparation for reading process will be demonstrated at training The training will take place on the last version of PC-3000 Flash.

One month of free Technical Support is provided for PC-3000 Flash for all students who completed the “Data recovery technologies for NAND based drives” training seminar.

 

MONOLITH DATA RECOVERY EXPERT TRAINING

An overview of the different types of monolith drives based on NAND Flash memory

Features & Challenges

  • Evaluation pins, transition holes, traces, including implementation details and sizes.
  • An overview of the tools and methods required for stripping the ceramic layer of the monolith drive.
  • Monolith database, conditions of access, and searching for pinout.
  • PC-3000 Flash Circuit Board – the universal adapter for working with monolith chips.

 

Functions & Possibilities

  • An overview of tools, methods and the specific materials needed for monolith chip soldering.
  • Installation of soldered monolith chip onto a Circuit Board adapter.
  • The choosing of a power supply mode, and the usage of internal and external power supply source.
  • Reading a memory chip dump – including: features, possible problems and solutions.
  • Data recovery with the help of PC-3000 Flash system.

During this training, students are required to pass all the necessary steps required for demonstrating
in-depth knowledge of stripping the monolith ceramic layer, soldering and reading data from monolith chips.

 

PC-3000 SSD DATA RECOVERY
  1. Characteristics of data storage in SSD
  2. Software and hardware implementation of SSD
  3. PC-3000 SSD utility. Components. Features
  4. Technique of primary diagnosis and determination of the nature of malfunction
  5. Two approaches of data recovery from SSD

 

Practice – Solving of real cases on damaged drives:

  • Indilinx Utility
  • Van Gogh Utility
  • Van Gogh2 Utility
  • Intel Postville Utility
  • Jmicron/Toshiba Utility
  • Samsung Utility
  • Seagate Utility
  • OCZ Utility

The real damaged drives will be examined during the practice. Under the guidance of an experienced tutor you will acquire all the necessary skills and knowledge for data recovery and repair of modern SSD.

Pre-requisites/Laptop Requirements

There are no prerequisites for students. Laptops will be provided at the course location.

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