Flash drives and memory cards

Flash drives and memory cards are made in purpose of making small, stable, resistant and transferable devices for storing the data. Without mobile parts, heads and motor, they soon have found its use in all transferable devices pushing aside hard disks, floppy and mini hard disks from almost all mobile devices.

However, all that mobility is not going without flaws. High sensitivity to electric discharges, as well as problems in connecting the device can cause frequent failures. Additionally, there is  a limited number of writings on each memory location which causes the algorithm of writing to be particularly complicated. Implemented algorithms «save» memory locations and «use it» equally.

Common thing for all this devices is that they are made of a controller and memory. In most of the cases the controller is damaged first.

Using very special tools we manage to read content of memory chips and with implemented operations we emulate the work of a controller.  

Data recovery from these kind of devices is the biggest challenge in data recovery at the time. Reason for that is a large number of producers, non-defined standards and short exploitation periods of these devices.