All-new solutions to recover as much data as possible in a
THE MOST UNIVERSAL tool for damaged storage media
Hardware-software systems to recover data from the majority of damaged storage
media: SATA/PATA/USB HDD, SATA/PCIe (M.2 NVMe/AHCI, Apple SSD, PCIe x16) SSD, SAS, RAID, logically
damaged USB Flash drives, SD/mSD cards.
Perfectly efficient for DIAGNOSTICS AND DATA RECOVERY
Use the PC-3000 Portable III to quickly and easily diagnose practically any
type of storage media devices, find the reason for damage, make images and recover as much data
as possible. And 2 active licenses for a desktop computer/
laptop along with a Standalone Mode to work without a host computer, allows you to arrange your
workstation wherever you need it!
4 diagnostic ports to recover data from 3 drives at the same time
Connect your storage media directly via the PC-3000 Portable III source
ports: USB, SATA, PATA, PCIe (NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook)
In certain modes, you may also use them to increase to 3 the number of
devices you deal with at the same time. Max speed of SATA ports: up to 490 MB/s
Target SATA1 and SATA2 ports for data imaging to destination drives
SAS
SAS HDD / SSD SUPPORTNEW!
With the new SAS adapter for PC-3000 Portable
III, you can conduct advanced diagnostics, repair and data recovery from HDD and SSD with
the SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI).
Now, with the new SAS adapter for PC-3000 Portable III, you can conduct advanced diagnostics,
repair and data
recovery from HDD and SSD with the SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI).
Adapter SAS, 6 Gbit/s
Connecting the SAS adapter to the PC-3000 Portable III
The SAS adapter is connected to Port 0. When choosing this port, the adapter is detected in the
system automatically:
Port choosing in the Standalone Mode
Port choosing in the Full-Featured Mode
The SAS adapter is an external device which is connected to Port0 of the PC-3000 Portable III.
The adapter includes a highly productive Marvell controller, effective low-noise voltage stabilizers
as well as other electronic components such as the Power and Data ports for SAS drive connection,
and three LED indicators: of the provided power supply - PWR, of the drive activity - SEL, and of
the error - FLT.
For temperature control, there is a fan inside the case of the adapter and a radiator on the
microchip of the bridge. The fan is monitored by the PWM controller which gets the data from the
temperature sensor.
The SAS adapter construction
The new SAS adapter сharacteristics:
Is built on the high-end SAS 2.0 Marvell controller
Has the SAS 2.0 port providing 6 Gbit/s, 3 Gbit/s, 1.5 Gbit/s data transferring modes
Lets you connect HDDs and SSDs with SAS and SATA interfaces as well
Is provided together with the software for SAS drive repair and data recovery
Has an active temperature control system. The operational temperatures are between 0 and +40°C
WARNING! The PC-3000 SAS Adapter Software must be activated to work with the Data Extractor Portable III functions and Universal / Special Utilities
The Reading Speed of SAS HDD and SAS SSD in the Full-Featured Mode
SAS HDD reading speed
SAS SSD reading speed
The reading speed of HDD SAS and SSD SAS in the Standalone Mode
SAS HDD reading speed
SAS SSD reading speed
Delivery Kit Options
1. SAS adapter
The SAS adapter is intended for SAS HDD and SAS SSD connection for general checking of device
operation capability, surface testing for reading, writing, verification, viewing SMART parameters
(Log Sense). It is also possible to view and change some device configuration parameters here.
The copying function lets you create the device image (full sector-by-sector copy) and save any area
of the logical space. The sector editor lets view and edit the chosen surface areas.
The adapter lets you work with SAS HDD and SSD in the Data Extractor software.
Delivery kit:
SAS adapter
Cable for HDD / SSD connection
User manual
Software:
Universal Utility for work with SAS HDD / SSD
Ability to work with SAS HDD / SSD in the Data Extractor
2. SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities
The SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities (for PC-3000 Portable III) provides the same
functions as the SAS adapter (see option 1) plus Special Software
Utilities.
The Special Fujitsu, HGST, and Seagate Utilities let you test SAS HDD in the technological mode,
check and recover the service information.
In the special utilities, testing and restoring HDD service information, modules, configuration pages
has been implemented. Translator recalculation (restoring) is supported as well as testing magnetic
heads and disk surfaces according to physical parameters, clearing SMART, resetting the counters of
on/off switching and work hours, loading the HDD microprogram.
The SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities will also allow you viewing the hidden defects table
of the P- and G-lists when dealing with SAS HDD.
Delivery kit:
SAS adapter
Cable for HDD / SSD connection
User manual
Software:
Universal Utility for work with SAS HDD / SSD
Special SAS Fujitsu HDD Utility
Special SAS HGST HDD / SSD Utility
Special SAS Seagate HDD Utility
Ability to deal with SAS HDD / SSD SAS in the Data Extractor software
Make your lab all-embracing with the new SAS adapter for PC-3000
Portable III!
You are welcome to contact sales@acelab.eu.com
to get the SAS adapter and the PC-3000 Portable III System.
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BREAKTHROUGH:
PCIe SSD SUPPORT!
The world’s first and only solution to deal with damaged PCIe SSDs! Stay
ahead
of your competitors: diagnose the condition of PCIe SSDs (NVMe/AHCI, Apple Macbook, PCIe
x16)
and recover data from such damaged devices thanks to the special adapters: M.2 PCIe NVMe
SSD/M.2
SATA SSD adapter, PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD, and PCIe x16 SSD Adapter.
Flash / USB
SD/MicroSD MEMORY CARDS SUPPORT
The PC-3000 Portable III delivery kit includes the specialized 2-in-1
SD/MicroSD Card Reader Adapter. As such, you can recover data from logically damaged
SD/MicroSD
memory cards with a capacity of 1 TB and below!
FASTER AND EASIER WORK WITH USB HDD/SSD/FLASH DRIVES
A direct connection allows you to have a full PWR control and
stable reading of partially damaged USB drives with many bad sectors/freezes without the OS and
driver influence on storage media. With the PC-3000 Portable III USB Host,
you can also send Techno Commands, so in most cases it’s possible to save time on searching for
a donor PCB or soldering the SATA interface. Besides, you are able to deal with logically
damaged NAND Flash drives!
PC-3000 PORTABLE III OPERATING MODES
Brand-new Standalone Mode
to create data images
Standalone Mode
Сreate data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB HDD, PCIe/SATA/USB SSD without a host
computer. Drive diagnostics, creation of the sector-by-sector copies, erasing (cleaning) of
the drives are available. More features are going to be added with the software updates.
Enhanced Easy Mode
to solve simple cases quickly
Easy Mode
Get rid of many routine steps by automating the process of data recovery from logically
damaged drives: check the drive's condition, save the report about it, read the drive ID
and
S.M.A.R.T. parameters, remove passwords from the security-locked drives, view/copy data, and
much more!
High-end Full-Featured Mode
to recover as many cases of different complexity as ever possible
Full-Featured mode
Get maximum data from damaged storage devices no matter how difficult your case is! The mode
includes top features that you already know from the other PC-3000 flagship solutions:
PC-3000 Express and PC-3000 UDMA.
No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!
SYSTEMS TO SUIT YOUR DATA RECOVERY NEEDS
Together with the ACE Lab’s software products, PC-3000 Portable III
forms the systems to recover data from SATA/PATA/USB HDD, PCIe/SATA/USB SSD, USB Flash drives,
SD/MicroSD memory cards, and RAID both in the lab and on-site:
HDD & USB devices data recovery
PC-3000 Portable System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III)
HDD & USB devices & SSD data recovery
PC-3000 Portable SSD System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III + PC-3000
SSD Extended)
HDD & USB devices & RAID data recovery
PC-3000 Portable RAID System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition)
HDD & USB devices & SSD & RAID data recovery
PC-3000 Portable Ultimate System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition + PC-3000
SSD Extended)
Form factor: External device (153,50х84х46,5 mm) Interface type: USB3.0 Diagnostic ports: USB 3.0 (Host), Port 0 (PCIe / SATA), Port 1
(SATA), Port 2 (SATA)
Power adapter: 4-channel independent power adapter with
protection from overvoltage and current overloading, with current and voltage
measurements Operating temperature range: 0-40°C thanks to the Climate Control
System Power Supply: External AC / DC 19 V Number of active licenses: 2 (to install the software on both a
desktop computer and a laptop) Other: Non-Volatile Memory to keep log files with date, time
(GMT), username and settings which can be used in the reports later on. The built-in
lithium power supply ensures uninterrupted operation
of the century-old calendar and world clock (UTC).
Recommended system requirements:
CPU: Intel Core i5 (4 cores, 4 threats) or AMD Ryzen 5; RAM: 8 Gb; Available disk space: 60 Gb of available disk space (for
installation of software and HDD/SSD resources); Operating system: Windows 7 (SP), 8, 10, x86, x64; Display: Widescreen Full HD 1920x1080 display. Ports: USB 3.0 Type-A port for connection of PC-3000 Portable (an
Intel xHCI HOST controller is recommended);
USB 3.0 Type-A or USB 2.0 port for PC-USB-TERMINAL connection;
Supported devices and file
systems:
SATA / PATA HDD (3.5", 2.5",1.8")
Supported interfaces:
SATA (Serial ATA) and USB devices compliant with the Mass Storage
Device specification, i.e. external USB 2.0/3.0 HDD and USB Flash
drives with logical issues (File System corruption, deleted data).
SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive).
PATA (IDE) - via a special PC SATA-PATA adapter from ACE Lab which
can be bought optionally.
Supported vendors:
Seagate, Western Digital, TOSHIBA, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Samsung,
Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum
Supported capacities:
From 40 GB and more (without upper limit)
SAS HDD / SSD (3.5", 2.5")*
Supported interfaces:
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
Supported vendors:
Seagate, Western Digital, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Fujitsu
Supported capacities:
From 80 GB and more
SSD**
Supported interfaces:
SATA II/III
M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 (NGFF) - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe
SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit
mSATA - via a special SATA-mSATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be
bought optionally
Micro SATA, PATA, LIF, ZIF, Apple proprietary interface - via
additional adapters from third-party vendors
The Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe Macbook SSD 2013-2019
(12+16 pin) - via the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD
from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally
PCIe x1-x16 - via the PCIe x16 SSD Adapter from ACE Lab which can be
bought optionally
Supported vendors:
OCZ, Corsair, Crucial, RunCore, A-DATA, G.Skill, Micron, Plextor, Intel,
Samsung, Seagate, SanDisk, Kingston, Smartbuy, Silicon Power, PNY, AMD,
Lexar, Transcend, Patriot, GoodRam, Kingspec, Toshiba, etc. More
manufacturers are added with the updates
Supported capacities:
From 32 GB and more (without upper limit)
USB Flash***
Supported interfaces:
USB devices that comply with the Mass Storage Device specification,
i.e., external USB 2.0 / 3.0 Flash.
SD/MicroSD Memory Cards via the special 2-in-1 Card Reader Adapter
included in the delivery kit
* for dealing with SAS HDD/SSD using your PC-3000 Portable III, you need to get the
SAS adapter additionally
** to work with Solid-State drives you need the PC-3000 solution which supports SSD:
PC-3000 Portable SSD or Ultimate Systems
*** the PC-3000 Portable III is able to recover data only from logically damaged
(partition corruption, deleted files, damaged File System, etc.) Flash drives
**** to work with RAID you need the PC-3000 solution which supports RAID arrays:
PC-3000 Portable RAID or Ultimate Systems
The PC-3000 Portable III is a one-of-a-kind hardware-software tool for on-site data recovery
with the maximum success rate. It is the most powerful and convenient solution available on
the market that contains the main principles
of the PC-3000 technology and much more to solve data recovery tasks easier and faster.
Depending on the system you choose, the PC-3000 Portable III also includes extra software
such as PC-3000 SSD Extended and Data Extractor RAID Edition to help you recover data from
not only SATA/PATA/USB HDDs, USB Flash devices, and SD/MicroSD memory cards, but also from
PCIe/SATA SSDs and RAID-arrays built from the drives based on the interfaces listed below.
More types of devices such as SAS drives are to get support in future.
Drives can be connected to the PC-3000 Portable III ports (2xSATA, 1xSATA/USB), motherboard
ports (xSATA, xUSB, etc) or represented as images.
The data recovery process may additionally require spare drives for destination copy of
the recovered
data.
To solve various issues with storage media devices, you can use 3 operating modes in the
PC-3000 Portable III: Standalone Mode, Easy Mode and Full-Featured Mode.
STANDALONE MODE TO CREATE DATA
IMAGES WITH UP TO 500 MB/S SPEED
Have you ever needed to work with storage media devices on-site? Thanks to the brand-new
Standalone Mode of the PC-3000 Portable III, you’re now able to solve some of your data
recovery tasks without a host computer! Easily diagnose
the HDD's condition and create data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB HDD, NVMe/SATA/USB
SSD right at your customers’ premises! All the information is displayed in the built-in 4”
Screen and controlled with the 8-button
keyboard.
Main features of the Standalone Mode:
Drive Diagnostics
Creation of the sector-by-sector copy
Erasing (cleaning) drives
S.M.A.R.T. View
Sector View
Hash sum calculation
More functions are to be added with software updates.
How to use the Standalone Mode:
Diagnostic ports in the Standalone Mode:
Source ports: USB 3.0 (HOST) and Port 0 (SATA / PCIe / NVMe)
To diagnose and investigate the drive, you should connect them to the Source Ports that have
a Hardware Write Blocker - the “Wr. Protection” switch. When it’s turned on, a yellow LED
lights up and indicates that the record
block is activated.
The following drives can be connected to the Source diagnostic ports: USB Flash,
SATA/PATA*/USB HDD, PCIe NVMe/SATA/USB SSD.
*To deal with PATA HDD, you need to use an additional PC SATA-PATA adapter (can be
purchased
optionally).
Target ports: Port 1 (SATA) and Port 2 (SATA)
The Target ports are used to create image copies of data. You can create such copies on 1 or
2 drives simultaneously. Only HDD and SSD drives with the SATA interface can be connected to
the target diagnostic ports.
The copying speed in the Standalone Mode is up to 500 MB/s.
Precise logging for all operations
All operations performed in the Standalone Mode are logged and recorded into the log file
inside the Non-Volatile Memory. When you connect the controller to the host computer, you
may view or print these log files.
For the purposes of precise logging, the PC-3000 Portable III has a century calendar and the
UTC clock (world time clock) that are able to run without interruption thanks to the
built-in lithium power supply.
EASY MODE TO SOLVE SIMPLE CASES
QUICKLY
A dream of many data recovery specialists became true: from now on, the data recovery process
is easier than ever! With the PC-3000 Portable III, you can use just its Easy Mode to
recover data from HDDs that don’t have serious
issues with the internal firmware or hardware part without delving into the variety of deep
PC-3000 functions. Even beginners in data recovery will be able to solve their first tasks
quickly and efficiently!
The experienced users, in turn, will get rid of many routine steps by automating the process
of data recovery from logically damaged drives:
a drive power management
a complex test to check the drive's condition and possibility to save the
report about it
a drive ID and SMART data reading and analysis
a password removal for security-locked drives
data viewing
data copy creation
data erasing
working with previously created tasks
mounting a drive in the Windows OS as a logical partition, and much more!
A completely new feature — Reports Generation — allows you save/print the report about
the condition of the drive, so you can show it to your clients. More information on how to
use the PC-3000 Portable III Easy Mode,
you may find in the video above.
How to use the Easy Mode:
FULL-FEATURED MODE TO RECOVER AS MANY
CASES OF DIFFERENT COMPLEXITY AS EVER POSSIBLE
Those engineers who prefer to fully control the process and would like to be a pro in data
recovery will truly appreciate the high-end Full-Featured Mode that includes top functions
for the most thorough and careful work with
storage media devices. Over a quarter of a century of in-depth research and development is
behind this mode. A scientific approach and a huge team of developers who constantly work on
enhancements allows you to get the
maximum data even if the drives are seriously damaged. No other tool can recover data like
PC-3000 does!
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems include the largest number (17) of special utilities
used for various vendors, architectures and HDD families:
Western Digital
WD Caviar old models
Caviar Cyl32
Caviar Cyl32 (SATA)
WDC Marvell
WDC Marvell USB/COM
Maxtor
Fujitsu
Toshiba
Toshiba 1.8, 2.5, 3.5
Toshiba 1.8, 2.5, 3.5 (USB)
Seagate
Seagate U5, Baracuda XX
Seagate F3 Architecture
Hitachi/IBM/HGST
Hitachi-IBM
Hitachi-IBM-ARM
Native 2.5 inch families
Samsung
Spin Point
Spin Point USB
Quantum/Quantum-Maxtor
No other tools have so many options to deal with different hard disk drives!
change configuration and identification parameters
reset logs and S.M.A.R.T parameters
watch and reset HDD passwords
work with the Data Extractor
How to recover data with the PC-3000 Portable III Systems if HDD is damaged
There are three types of HDD malfunctions: physical damage, logical damage and a
combination of physical and logical damage.
PC-3000 Systems are the only products that combine methods for solving both
physical and
logical problems. This allows you to effectively solve the widest range of
tasks: from the
simplest to the most complex ones.
The most frequent reasons of HDD damage:
failure of one or more magnetic-resistance heads
damaged service information modules
magnetic surface defects like scratches
damaged PCB
other damage
HDD diagnosis can be done in standard (user) and technological (factory) modes. There
are special PC-3000 adapters used for switching the HDD into the technological mode
to get access to the internal HDD software and
user data. This opportunity is a result of many years of diligent
research directed by our vast expertise in recovering data from HDD.
A damaged HDD can stop functioning at any time. That is why it is very
important to read the maximum data volume in the shortest period of time.
With the PC-3000 Portable III Systems, you can create both full
(sector-by-sector) or partial data copies from damaged drives. The thing is
Data Extractor Portable has integrated functionality for logical analysis of
file systems which allows reading necessary data only.
This technology greatly reduces the volume of the read data, the duty cycle
of damaged HDDs and the time required for data recovery.
In many cases, it is not necessary to fully repair the HDD to recover data.
It could suffice to correct the internal HDD software. This allows for
temporal access to user data and you can read the required information.
The issues
The solutions to the issues
One of the magnetic heads is damaged
You can get data access through the remaining heads using the “MR-Head
Shift technology”. The damaged head is substituted by the adjacent
correct magnetic head. It allows you to keep the integrity of the
translated data and to read big data volumes without exchanging the head
stack.
A problem with the initial HDD initialization
The detailed start process log can show some information that helps to
identify the damaged program modules with service information. Service
area copies can be switched over to make the correct system head
initialization. If the initialization process fails due to the problem
with loading program modules into RAM, you can use special Loader that
creates essential HDD content into RAM.
A significantly damaged surface
Technological mode allows you to read data using physical parameters in
PZCHS (Physical Zones Cylinder-Head-Sector) or line physical area with
ABA. It is very often the only way to read data from significantly
damaged surfaces.
A PCB is damaged
You can use another correct PCB taken from an HDD donor. This will save
a lot of time in gaining access to user data.
An HDD has a USB interface
USB HDD access can be done using the PC-3000 Portable III USB host port
that allows you to deal with damaged drives. If there is no access to an
HDD via the USB host port, the COM port Terminal adapter or
an adapted SATA HDD PCB are used.
To make initial diagnostics in the Full-Featured Mode, the PC-3000 universal utility
is launched. It diagnoses the HDD in user mode. The following checks are done: if
the HDD is identified and if the HDD is password
locked; check of surface access by LBA to the user data area and HDD translation
system etc. If there are any HDD malfunctions, a special vendor-specific
technological utility (intended for a specific HDD vendor)
is used to repair the drive and gain access to user data in technological mode.
How to repair HDDs with the PC-3000 Portable III Systems
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems allow you to repair physically damaged HDD drives in
factory mode. A wide range of functions for repairing HDDs enables the user to:
diagnose the reason of HDD malfunction: PCB, heads or magnetic surface overwrite
FLASH ROM
switch off damaged magnetic heads
detect and exclude damage in the HDD service area
recalculate and overwrite service modules
regenerate the translation system
clean and reset S.M.A.R.T. logs and tables
detect bad areas in magnetic surfaces and to exclude them from the HDD working
area.
The PC-3000 Portable III HDD firmware database
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems have a massive database of factory firmware
resources: FLASH ROMs, service area modules, service area tracks, and other HDD
critical resources. The database is systematized and stores
all data in compressed format. It allows getting quick and easy data access and
sharing firmware resources between several PC-3000 Kits.
The main advantages of the PC-3000 database:
The FireBird database server is used (one of the most reliable SQL
servers)
adaptive indexation mechanism is used to speed up the search process
shared firmware database can be created for use by several PC-3000 kits
at the same time
the backup policy can be managed
you can create a database with more than 4GB size
you may add your own resources, for example, new objects, from the
latest HDD models
all users can exchange resources they have between each other
Dedicated modes for experienced users
There are two dedicated modes intended for experienced users: integrated script
system and ATA commander.
Script system allows creating algorithms used for issuing commands to HDDs in
Visual Basic Script including data preparation and interpretation of results. The
advanced object model is used for getting access
to HDDs. This object model is used by PC-3000 utilities. This algorithm can be added
to any PC-3000 utility as a "user" mode.
ATA commander is an interactive mode that allows issuing commands to HDDs
(including technological commands) even by a user who does not have programming
skills. You can set values for HDD registers (including
registers for LBA 48 mode), and prepare and provide HDD data commands using a binary
text editor. The sequence of supplied HDD commands can be classified by types and
saved to file for later use or for sending to
another PC-3000 owner. Judging from HDD command data, ATA Commander can generate
script text for using it from the Script system or as a "user mode".
Almost all modern SSDs have hardware data encryption. That’s why the chip-off method
becomes useless for accessing data on a damaged device. In this case, the Techno
Mode used in the PC-3000 SSD Systems is the only
possible way to restore logical access to data on the SSD.
This method of working with SSDs is unique and unparalleled - no other tool can
do the
same!
How the Techno Mode works
The drive works in Techno Mode
CPU is working in single-channel mode
SSD is using custom Translator
Extended capacity is available
TRIM is disabled
Service Area is unlocked
Breakthrough: PCIe SSD Support NEW!
With the PC-3000 Portable III Systems, you are now able to recover data
not only from
SATA-based SSDs but also from the PCIe ones!
The special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the
delivery kit helps you to diagnose the condition of a drive and recover data
from healthy and damaged PCIe SSDs.
Besides, you can use the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD (can be
purchased separately) to deal with Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe
Macbook SSD
2013-2019 (12+16 pin). And the PCIe x16 SSD adapter allows you to deal with
native PCIe x16 - based drives.
Supported devices:
Silicon Motion Family (SM2260, SM2262, SM2263XT, HPH8068):
ADATA XPG SX7000
HP EX900
Lexar NM600
Patriot Hellfire
Radeon R5
Transcend MTE110S
Zion NFP03 (NeoForza)
Marvell Family (88SS1093):
Plextor M9Pe
Phison Family (PS5007, PS5008):
Apacer A52280P2
Gigabyte GSM2NE8
Kingston A1000
Kingston KC1000
LiteON MU X
Patriot Hellfire M2
Patriot Scorch M2
Smartbuy M8
+ many other PS5007 and PS5008-based SSDs
More utilities for different vendors will appear with future updates!
Different Utilities to work with SSDs
The PC-3000 Portable III SSD/Ultimate Systems which include the PC-3000 SSD Extended
software can help to deal with the most complex SSD cases with such typical signs of
internal Firmware corruption as wrong or zero capacity,
no drive ID, invisible status in BIOS/OS despite the fact that a drive is connected.
The Universal Utility intended for diagnosing any SSD based on the ATA-8
specification (both currently existing models and those that will be manufactured in
the future).
The Active Utilities (Special Utilities) intended for working with a
particular drive model in factory mode. It enables us to deeply diagnose SSDs, to
perform service operations, to rewrite the drive's microcode,
to get direct access to memory chips, to carry out low-level formatting blocking the
damaged cells and placing their addresses into the defect table, and to perform many
other useful operations.
The PC-3000 SSD Extended software add-on is started from the main window of the
PC-3000 Portable SSD/Ultimate System by means of clicking a button on the desktop
panel.
PC-3000 SSD has the following functions for data recovery:
verify and restore the SSD's service information
read and write the content of the SSD's ROM
load the microcode into the drive's RAM
emulate the translator operation in order to get access to user data
view the password and reset the password that was earlier set on an SSD (bypass
the ATA security)
turn off background processes in an SSD to prevent data damage
provide direct access to the content of memory chips (it makes unsoldering
unnecessary)
work with the Data Extractor
PC-3000 SSD has the following functions for data recovery:
diagnose an SSD in factory mode
verify and restore the SSD's service information
read and write the content of the SSD's ROM
load the microcode into the drive's RAM
view the logs of hidden defects (P-page, G-page)
perform low-level formatting to hide the discovered defects
change the configuration and identification parameters
reset the logs and S.M.A.R.T. parameters
search for the damaged memory chips
The list of Active Utilities of the PC-3000 SSD Extended software is expanded
as soon as new SSD models are studied, and it is a continuous process. Those
utilities that are currently available allow you to successfully recover
data from all contemporary solid-state drives and to resolve the majority of
wide-spread SSD problems. Special adapters and connectors for PC-3000 Portable III
have been added in order to use technological interfaces
to diagnose and repair drives.
Data recovery from SATA-based SSDs
Techno Mode to Deactivate TRIM and Get Data from Logically Damaged ADATA SU800
SSD
A New Solution to the Most Mind-Boggling SSD Cases (Logically Damaged SanDisk
Ultra II)
Today, RAID arrays have a great number of drives and have complicated structures
(combined and proprietary levels) while several members of a RAID can have serious
physical damages (damaged surfaces, HSA, servo-information,
etc.). The file system metadata of the RAID can be also damaged.
Thus, there are several issues with RAID data recovery:
Working with the damaged HDDs in the RAID
Defining the array configuration
Array assembly and logical recovery of data from it
These problems may also occur simultaneously. The PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate
Systems are professional solutions that have a wide range of functions for solving
all major problems completely.
The ACE Lab RAID products cover all of your professional needs. Once you try them,
you do not
need anything else, because you get the easiest, fastest and smartest tools for
recovering
data from RAID.
With PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems, you do not need to be a hex-guru
to
successfully recover data from RAID!
How to recover data from damaged HDD in a RAID with the PC-3000 Portable III Systems
The PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems which include the Data Extractor RAID
Edition software can work with 3 damaged HDDs connected to the PC-3000 Portable III
ports within one task at the same time. The total
number of connected HDDs can be increased by using motherboard ports and
file-images.
The Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition includes all Data Extractor Portable III
features + additional crucial features for working with damaged HDDs of a virtual
RAID:
Ability to make a full or partial data copy from any HDD included in the RAID
Ability to define and use a virtual translator for any HDD in the RAID or the
whole virtual RAID
Ability to manage and interact with the specialized PC-3000 Portable utility for
HDDs connected to the PC-3000 Portable III ports (power supply management, reset
commands, choice of reading command, etc.)
Advanced features for working with SCSI and SAS storage devices (full control
over reading parameters, choice of reading command, building the head map, etc.)
Ability to skip the damaged HDD while defining the array configuration or to use
data taken from a copy
Redundancy usage with the purpose of data recovery from the problematic HDDs
Integrated logical analysis features that allow for reading only the minimally
necessary amount of data from the storage device, thus reducing the load and
increasing the chances of successful recovery
Before the Data Extractor RAID Edition appeared, you would have had to have made a
full sector-by-sector copy of the data from the simple stripe if one of its members
was physically damaged and could not be connected
in a standard way, or it would not have been possible to get access to its sectors
without using the PC-3000 methods. You could only have attempted to recover the user
data after creating a copy.
Taking into account the significant capacity of high-end HDDs and possible issues
with a full copy of the damaged drive, the PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate Systems
provide a unique
approach:
Create a Virtual RAID.
Open the Virtual RAID in the Data Extractor Explorer and get an understanding of
the data organization in the virtual RAID.
Build a map of the required data. It can be a map of used sectors, a data map of
the required catalogs, a necessary file map, or a metadata map.
For the built map, build a “Sub-map” of sectors to be read from the damaged HDD.
Make a sector-by-sector copy only of these required sectors by using the Data
Extractor.
Save the required data.
How to define the array configuration
RAID configurations can be very complex. Even if the configuration appears to be
simple, the data recovery from RAID is not an easy process, because it can be
difficult to define the correct order of HDDs, the block
size and the initial shift. However, with the Data Extractor RAID Edition software
included in your system, you’ll get the most powerful, professional and smartest
approach to RAID recovery.
Key features of the PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate Systems to define the array
configuration:
Unique auto-detection mode for a wide range of configurations. This mode is
based on the analysis of file systems and user data
A powerful interactive mode that allows for easily defining unusual
configurations, and very flexible automatic operations with an ability to
control the current result
Useful search tools help define numerous RAID parameters including detecting the
size and reviewing the file system structures, metadata with disk structure
(MBR, GPT, etc.), including the metadata with the virtual
RAID organization (mdadm RAID superblock), and analysis of the information from
LDM
Array parameters can be defined without touching defective HDDs
"RAID member statistics" — this mode allows you to reliably and clearly detect
basic RAID parameters: block size, level of the array, number of members, delay
Even if you know the full configuration of a RAID and there are no problems with the
damaged HDD, recovering data from a RAID can be a complicated task for multiple
reasons: a large number of drives which need to be
connected simultaneously, slow read speeds, impossibility to assemble an unusual
array configuration or logical damages.
How the PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems can help you to simplify this
job:
You can connect up to 3 HDDs to the PC-3000 Portable III ports in addition to
the local motherboard ports and image files
High read speed from the virtual RAID
An extended list of standard RAID levels with the possibility of defining new
unknown levels
Ability to recover and check the integrity of data for arrays with redundancy
All logical recovery modes can be used for the virtual RAID
Map building can be done by taking into account the map position of a specific
RAID member. You can choose the specific sectors for a file map or RAID
partition
The new PC-3000 Express/UDMA/SAS/Portable software version 7.5.x has been released.
PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x
Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x
PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x
The latest update brings a lot of new useful features, like full support of 4K displays into the PC-3000 interface, new families for WD Marvell and Seagate F3, the new HDD ROM wizard for Seagate drives as well as the new implementation of T2 translator recovery with WDC Marvell utilities and the new Silicon Motion controllers.
It’s one of the biggest PC-3000 updates ever, and it brings so many changes and improvements. The ACE Lab team is sure that it will significantly help PC-3000 users to increase their modern drives’ recovery rate!
ACE Lab technical engineers have made a short overview video of the new features available in the latest update. We highly recommend you to watch it from beginning to end for better understanding how the new modes and features work. Feel free to send your questions in our TS ticket system: https://ts.acelab.eu.com and enjoy our new PC-3000 7.4.x update!
The latest PC-3000 Software is available! The new update has brought a lot of cool features for Western Digital and Seagate HDDs, including new drive families and expanded recovery options for SMR drives, new SSD loaders, a new CPU Utility for MAXIO controllers and much more.
All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6
Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6
PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software version.
The latest PC-3000 Software is available! Thanks to the new SDK we have recently switched to, it's already been the 3rd major software update released this year.
The new update has brought the enhanced T2 Reading and Analysis Mode, the support of PS5012, PS3112, and of new SAS SSDs, as well as many more other useful features to improve your work with data recovery cases! All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
Great news for the data recovery community: with the new PC-3000 Software Update, you can unlock the Techno Mode for WD SED drives of all SMR 2.5" and 3.5” families without any custom PCB. It’s the easiest and most convenient way how to do this!
This release has also brought the support of LVM2 thin pools and PS5016 PCIe 4.0 NVME drives as well as loaders for PS3111 and SM2259XT controllers. These features and many more are already available in the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
At the ACE
Lab Webinar on the Modern Challenges in Data Recovery & Digital Forensics, our technical engineers
showed the features available with the PC-3000 Version 7.0.x., for example, TLER (time-limited error recovery) for
WD HDD, the Data Extractor error-processing scenario, and the support of new NVMe drives based on Marvell 88SS1093
controller. These features and more are now available in the latest version of the PC-3000 Software:
Since now, it's possible to work with Phison PS3111-based drives, which have
YMTC NAND memory on board. The new update brings an opportunity to decrypt
the external USB drive Transcend ESD230C with SM2258XT controller, and also
it brings extended loaders support for SM2259XT drives, improvements in
software stability and speed.
Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and
Korean software:
The ACE Lab Online TechCon on Data
Recovery & Digital Forensics 2021 revealed a huge number of the
most up-to-date features for your PC-3000 tools: support of the new drives
families and controllers, T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives, a new
class of additional maps, and many others functions that make your data
recovery job easier and faster.
Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and
Korean software:
We continually enhance the PC-3000 tools by adding new modes, algorithms, and
functions. Today we are
glad to announce that the following English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
software updates are
released:
PC-3000 Portable-II/Portable-III/Express/UDMA-e version 6.8.8
PC-3000 SAS-I/SAS-II version 6.8.8
Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.11.5
PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended version 2.9.5
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software
versions.
ACE lab developers have done a great job by researching Silicon Motion
SM2258XT SSDs and optimizing
the algorithms to make the most efficient and stable Utility for this type
of the drives. As such,
you can now raise your data recovery success rate by dealing with Silicon
Power Slim S55, KingDian
S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn
885, Crucial BX500, and
other SM2258XT SSDs.
The support appears with the beta version of the PC-3000 SSD Extended
software ver. 2.9.3 available
for the PC-3000 Portable III users. To get the beta version of the
software, please contactour Technical Support
Department.
The ACE Lab developers constantly research drives which results in a rapid
expansion of the support list for the most modern storage media devices.
Today, we have released PC-3000 SSD Extended – the new software
add-on that supports the widest range of SSD types: SATA, mSATA, M.2 SATA,
M.2 PCIe NVMe/АHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, LIF, ZIF, PATA.
The additional features of the PC-3000 SSD Extended add-on for PCIe SSD
(NVMe/AHCI) appear with the beta version of software available for the
PC-3000 Portable III users only. To get the beta version of the software,
please contactour Technical
Support Department.
Last week, you saw a lot of new PC-3000 functions at the ACE Lab Online
Technology Conference on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2020. Today
all these features are waiting for you in your update boxes! The
following English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software updates are
released:
PC-3000 Express/UDMA-e/Portable-II/Portable-III) version 6.7.12
Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.10.7
PC-3000 SSD version 2.8.2
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software
versions.
The PC-3000 Portable III is the first and the only solution for recovering
data from PCIe NVMe SSDs using the Techno Mode. At the initial release, it
supported only Silicon Motion SSDs based on SM2260 and SM2263
controllers. But it was just the beginning!
Now we have significantly expanded the list of supported drives by adding the
NVMe SSDs based on the Phison PS5007 controller. And since all the
PS5007-based SSDs are technically the same, you can recover data from
any model based on this controller, even if it’s not listed in the
Utility.
ACE Lab developers continue enhancing the software of the PC-3000 Portable III System
with new features for the user community. As a result, the most universal
and
powerful tool became even faster – now the speed of internal copying
is up to 490 MB/s. We also added the support of HDDs and SSDs with a logical
sector size other than 512 bytes that had not previously
been possible. Besides, it’s no longer required to disable the Secure
Boot option in UEFI (BIOS) before the PC-3000 Portable III installation.
The well-designed and flexible architecture of the PC-3000 Portable III
allows the ACE Lab developers to continue enhancing this incredibly powerful
product on the software and internal firmware levels. As such,
you get a hardware-software tool that is constantly evolving by obtaining a
lot of new features and supporting new models of storage media devices,
along with new standards and interfaces.
There are so many features that have been added to the PC-3000 Portable III
just within one month! Take a glance at them by clicking the link below.
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems come with a new version of the PC-3000
software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition
ver.5.10.x. More details are below:
WD Marvell
Added Charger family support;
For SMR HDD (Spyglass, Palmer, Charger):
Added map building based on second-level translator
data, disabling Read Defrag;
the restriction on the volume (65535 sectors) read by
the module ID has been removed;
Added technological reading by PBA (reading is possible
if a second-level translator is lost).
For the PC-3000 Portable-III complex, a logical scan has been
added for the USB / COM utility (for the USB Host port).
Seagate F3
Added support for the following families:
7A Makara, 8B Lamarr, 91 MakaraPlus, 95 Hepburn Oasis,
9B V11, A1 M11, A6 Nemo, AF Rosewood AF / Janus;
UnlockTech code rewritten to ensure minimum size in ROM;
A mechanism for expanding the BOOTFW segment in ROM for
UnlockTech has been made for the AF Rosewood AF / Janus family;
For the families GrenadaBP2, Bacall, PharaohOasis, HepburnOasis,
the loader loading permission code has been improved:
from BFW (integrated into UnlockTech);
from DFW (available from: ROM Wizard or Auto
Initialization Wizard, function "Switch off extended LOD
checking(RAM)".
For reading modules, the selection of a working copy has been
added (auto, 1, 2). If "auto" is selected, the disk reads and
selects the copy by itself;
- When recording modules and Sys Files, you can separately
select which copy to save;
- When recording modules and Sys Files, the last selected folder
is now remembered;
- When writing ROM, the last selected terminal speed is now
saved;
- The ability to save the selected region of RAM via ATA has
been added to the procedure of HDD resources backup;
- Added head test for reading / writing SA modules: DST_WRTESTx,
where x = 0..7 - head numbers (i.e. modules 22..29);
- The option to work via terminal has been added to maps of
logical and physical heads to edit the block of SAP parameters
(Servo Adaptives Parameters) in RAM - MaxHead;
Added active utility actions for Data Extractor:
"Download the write lock to RAM HDD (ATA)";
"No HOST BSY -> RDY" - receiving the state of readiness
for some damage to SA leading to BUSY;
"Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)”;
"Clear device fault state (RAM)";
"Download translator to RAM HDD";
"Download MCMT to RAM HDD.
Plugins and add-ons to them:
Plugin "MCMT extent edit" - extent editor in MediaCache;
"MCMT \ Edit" - added the ability to cut TRIM extents;
In the parser "MCMT \ Parser" you can now filter TRIM
records and save them into a separate map file.
New feature for direct work with DiskFW has been added in "Work
with Flash ROM image file" menu: through reading/writing Sys
File (Terminal/ATA Direct/ATA Indirect - Utility status
settings);
New patches/actions have been added in the "Work with
Flash ROM image file" menu:
The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA
SysDef reading) and patch removal;
The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on
DiskFW);
The patch clearing DAP / CELog (Critical Event Log) in
ROM;
The "Kahuna/GrenadaSSHD CFW/DFW patch 2" patch - to get
Terminal access in case of NAND damage;
The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch and patch
removal;
The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)"
action.
New patches/actions has been added in the "HDD
Autoinitialization":
The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA
SysDef reading);
The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on
DiskFW);
The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch;
The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)"
post-action;
The "Load translator to HDD" post-action;
The "Load MCMT" post-action.
Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been
included into all ROM reading/writing options;
Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been
included into all ROM reading/writing options;
Defect hiding procedure and translator regeneration via ATA have
been improved - for Rosewood and similar families;
In case of Alternative initialization through terminal
(ROM/DiskFW) sys files are saved in profile folder;
BootFW and BootCode switches have been added to the "User
commands" menu.
7200.10 NHawk has been added to the Family list (same block with
Galaxy).
HITACHI-IBM-ARM
Autofilter has been added for different object types in Work
with SA objects menu;
Warning messages have been added for ROM writing option:
Warning before ROM writing - "If it fails, it needs a
programmer for ROM rewrite";
Warning before ROM writing - "For ROM write it needs to
be code overlays loaded in HDD RAM";
Warning before ROM writing - "ROM write may take some
minutes to perform".
Samsung HDD
The "Send "LE"" ("LE" package) has been added in the "Utility
Actions";
In defect's editor fixed error when it was impossible to enter
a cylinder number greater than 0xFFFF when adding a defect;
In "Reading modules" test fixed error when the module was first
read, and then the "Skip Existing Modules" checkbox was checked;
In "Disabling zone and heads" test fixed error when it was
impossible to interrupt the running process;
Added header check when editing the SNTBL module;
Added possibility to reserve modules not only by composing
reading but with chosen heads;
For Samsung "USB Utility" (USB host Portable3 version) added the
test "Logical Scan";
Added the "Reconnect COM port" menu;
Added possibility to clear module directly in ROM dump to the
"Clearing FIPS module";
Added autopower switching after reading ROM from the drive to
the "Initializing HDD with editing the head map in RAM" test. In
some cases the drive may freeze after reading ROM;
Added S.M.A.R.T. enabling in module B2 PROFILE to the
"S.M.A.R.T. Clearing" (by utility method). For M8E drives that
pass the burn-test;
Added possibility to choose values from the list of standard
capacities to the "Passport data editor" test and the menu "Set
max LBA" from the "Disabling zones and Heads" test;
Added menu for selecting zones according to the CHS list and the
A-LIST table to the "Disabling zones and heads";
In order to unify it with other utilities, the “Formatting” test
has been moved to a separate quick access menu;
For F1_3D, F2_EG, N2B, N3 families loaders are replaced. New
loaders have the ability to write a ROM dump to the drive
completely, including a head map;
Added the "Change the head map in ROM" test for drives F1_3D,
F2_EG, F3, M7S2, N2B, F3_4D, M7E, F4_3D, F4, M8E, MT2, N3, MP4,
M9T;
Samsung USB utility adapted to work with USB-Host port PC-3000
Portable 3.
Toshiba
Added a logical scan for the PC-3000 Portable-III complex and
for the USB Utility (for the USB Host port).
The PC-3000 Core
A completely redesigned simplified interface. Added support for
NVMe and USB drives. Added report on the results of diagnostics
and statistics on a copy creation.
Imaging speed increased by increasing priority of threads
engaged in "secondary" parsing processes (background analysis,
writing and reading maps) and energy saving settings changes (%
of process using
etc). Due to these improvements imaging speed was increased to
minimum reading speed of two devices (source and patient). For
example, the PC-3000 SAS II device is able to perform imaging
with about
220 MB/sec;
Alternative maps
real-time coloring possibility for alternative map
(during the reading process for example) was added;
real-time coloring possibility for alternative map on
drives with changed sector size and "connected" map
during the reading initial drives was added;
"Snapshots based on legend" alternative maps for File
systems option was added.
During the saving process from the searching window now only
saves files that meet the search criteria;
RAW recovery
Fixed the Fake APFS structures searching result issue;
Some types of files control has been improved to avoid possible
fake searching result;
*.heic files are parsing now (before determined like *.mp4);
DHF and WFS structures searching has been added, also virtual
partitions adding methods has been improved.
Virtual Drive - Map Decrypted:
Added support of 256 bit keys;
Added support of AES-CBC-WithoutDiffusor algorithms.
FileVault
Metadata parsing has been improved. Loading speed has
been improved.
EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey files is no longer required
for a lot of tasks;
Unicode passwords are supported now.
BitLocker
Added support of Partitions with few recovery keys;
Added support of Unicode passwords.
VeraCrypt
Added support of VeraCrypt (though without Camellia and
Kuznechik algorithms for now).
F2FS File system
Primary support of FS added.
NTFS file system
Added parser for NTFS LogFile. LogFile contains NTFS
metadata changes (MFT, Index). Option is in the context
menu of file system node (menu "Parse LFS", LFS stands
for Log File Service). As a
result, the virtual disk with so-called layers is
created. It's possible to select a layer on the disk.
Layer presents a snapshot of metadata at a certain time
period. Number of layers correlates
with the "age" of the layer. Based on practice, LogFile
can contain metadata for a time period from several
hours to several months.
Implemented basic support for the new type of EFS
metadata.
Improved start offset detection for partitions with huge
amount of non-resident catalogs;
Added support for MFT uploading for tasks with several
disks.
Implemented saving procedure for deduplicated files with
resident attribute C0.
UFS file system
Improves partition analysis with file extensions with
more than 8 unicode symbols.
ExFAT file system
Improved partition analysis. Added parser for objects
addressed by FAT table without descriptors in catalogs
(LostFatObjects node).
FAT file system
Improved analysis for cases with more than 10000
catalogs;
Added support for the FAT table with more than 200000
sectors.
HFS+ file system
Improved performance of partition analysis.
Silicon Motion
eNew loaders have been added for SM2246EN and SM2246XT
controllers;
During translator building an output of the total number of
defective pages has been added into the log;
Tests for translator saving and uploading have been added;
Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during
drive initialization and in "Memory chips test"
SM2246EN (SATA) controller:
New family Transcend 370s has been added;
SM2258XT (SATA) controller:
New family Silicon Power S55 has been added;
SM2260G (NVMe) controller:
New family ADATA XPG SX7000 has been added;
SM2263XT (NVMe) controller:
The following families have been added: AMD Radeon R5,
Transcend MTE110S, Lexar NM600, Neo Forza Zion NFP03, HP
EX900.
Phison
For PS3108, PS3111 and AS2258 controllers new loaders have been
added;
Algorithm for correct Loader version autodetection in case if
SSD stays in SAFE MODE has been improved;
Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during
drive initialization and in "Memory chips test".
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The PC-3000 Portable III Ultimate System is a hardware-software solution to
recover digital evidence from logically or/and physically damaged SATA/PATA/USB HDD, SATA/PCIe
(M.2 NVMe/AHCI, Apple SSD, PCIe x16) SSD, SAS, RAID, logically damaged USB Flash drives, SD/mSD
cards.
Tailored for forensics data recovery both in the lab and
in the field
The PC-3000 Portable III is primarily intended for digital forensics experts
and has many useful forensic features. Use it both with a desktop computer in your lab and a
laptop or in a Standalone Mode at the crime scene. With 2 active
licenses, you are able to arrange your workstation wherever you need it!
4 diagnostic ports to recover evidence from 3 drives at the same
time
Connect your storage media directly via the PC-3000 Portable III source
ports: USB, SATA, PATA, PCIe (NVMe/AHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook)
In certain modes, you may also use them to increase to 3 the number of
devices you deal with simultaneously. Max speed of SATA ports: up to 490 MB/s.
Target SATA1 and SATA2 ports for data imaging to destination drives
HARDWARE WRITE PROTECTION TO ENSURE EVIDENCE INTEGRITY
A special switch on the device blocks any alteration of data during the
extraction or imaging with the source SATA0 and USB ports. When it’s turned on, a yellow LED
lights up and indicates that the record block is activated.
LOGGING AND REPORTS GENERATION
View, save and print reports about the condition of drives you examine for
further investigation. The detailed information in the report can help you to better understand
the internal hardware status of the drive you deal with.
SAS
SAS HDD / SSD SUPPORTNEW!
With the new SAS adapter for PC-3000 Portable
III, you can conduct advanced diagnostics, repair and data recovery from HDD and SSD with
the SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI).
Learn more
The PC-3000 Portable III has
become an even more universal data recovery & digital forensic tool!
Now, with the new SAS adapter for PC-3000 Portable III, you can conduct advanced diagnostics,
repair and data
recovery from HDD and SSD with the SAS interface (Serial Attached SCSI).
Adapter SAS, 6 Gbit/s
Connecting the SAS adapter to the PC-3000 Portable III
The SAS adapter is connected to Port 0. When choosing this port, the adapter is detected in the
system automatically:
Port choosing in the Standalone Mode
Port choosing in the Full-Featured Mode
The SAS adapter is an external device which is connected to Port0 of the PC-3000 Portable III.
The adapter includes a highly productive Marvell controller, effective low-noise voltage stabilizers
as well as other electronic components such as the Power and Data ports for SAS drive connection,
and three LED indicators: of the provided power supply - PWR, of the drive activity - SEL, and of
the error - FLT.
For temperature control, there is a fan inside the case of the adapter and a radiator on the
microchip of the bridge. The fan is monitored by the PWM controller which gets the data from the
temperature sensor.
The SAS adapter construction
The new SAS adapter сharacteristics:
Is built on the high-end SAS 2.0 Marvell controller
Has the SAS 2.0 port providing 6 Gbit/s, 3 Gbit/s, 1.5 Gbit/s data transferring modes
Lets you connect HDDs and SSDs with SAS and SATA interfaces as well
Is provided together with the software for SAS drive repair and data recovery
Has an active temperature control system. The operational temperatures are between 0 and +40°C
WARNING! The PC-3000 SAS Adapter Software must be activated to work with the Data Extractor Portable III functions and Universal / Special Utilities
The Reading Speed of SAS HDD and SAS SSD in the Full-Featured Mode
SAS HDD reading speed
SAS SSD reading speed
The reading speed of HDD SAS and SSD SAS in the Standalone Mode
SAS HDD reading speed
SAS SSD reading speed
Delivery Kit Options
1. SAS adapter
The SAS adapter is intended for SAS HDD and SAS SSD connection for general checking of device
operation capability, surface testing for reading, writing, verification, viewing SMART parameters
(Log Sense). It is also possible to view and change some device configuration parameters here.
The copying function lets you create the device image (full sector-by-sector copy) and save any area
of the logical space. The sector editor lets view and edit the chosen surface areas.
The adapter lets you work with SAS HDD and SSD in the Data Extractor software.
Delivery kit:
SAS adapter
Cable for HDD / SSD connection
User manual
Software:
Universal Utility for work with SAS HDD / SSD
Ability to work with SAS HDD / SSD in the Data Extractor
2. SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities
The SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities (for PC-3000 Portable III) provides the same
functions as the SAS adapter (see option 1) plus Special Software
Utilities.
The Special Fujitsu, HGST, and Seagate Utilities let you test SAS HDD in the technological mode,
check and recover the service information.
In the special utilities, testing and restoring HDD service information, modules, configuration pages
has been implemented. Translator recalculation (restoring) is supported as well as testing magnetic
heads and disk surfaces according to physical parameters, clearing SMART, resetting the counters of
on/off switching and work hours, loading the HDD microprogram.
The SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities will also allow you viewing the hidden defects table
of the P- and G-lists when dealing with SAS HDD.
Delivery kit:
SAS adapter
Cable for HDD / SSD connection
User manual
Software:
Universal Utility for work with SAS HDD / SSD
Special SAS Fujitsu HDD Utility
Special SAS HGST HDD / SSD Utility
Special SAS Seagate HDD Utility
Ability to deal with SAS HDD / SSD SAS in the Data Extractor software
Make your lab all-embracing with the new SAS adapter for PC-3000
Portable III!
You are welcome to contact sales@acelab.eu.com
to get the SAS adapter and the PC-3000 Portable III System.
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Flash / USB
SD/MicroSD MEMORY CARDS SUPPORT
The PC-3000 Portable III delivery kit includes the specialized 2-in-1
SD/MicroSD Card Reader Adapter. As such, you can recover data from logically damaged
SD/MicroSD
memory cards with a capacity of 1 TB and below!
FASTER AND EASIER WORK WITH USB HDD/SSD/FLASH DRIVES
A direct connection allows you to have a full PWR control and
stable reading of partially damaged USB drives with many bad sectors/freezes without the OS and
driver influence on storage media. With the PC-3000 Portable III USB Host,
you can also send Techno Commands, so in most cases it’s possible to save time on searching for
a donor PCB or soldering the SATA interface. Besides, you are able to deal with logically
damaged NAND Flash drives!
PC-3000 PORTABLE III OPERATING MODES
Brand-new Standalone Mode
to create data images with up to 500 MB/s speed
Standalone Mode Сreate data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB HDD,
PCIe/SATA/USB SSD without a host computer. Drive diagnostics, creation of the
sector-by-sector copies, erasing (cleaning) of the drives are available. More features are
going to be added with the software updates.
Easy Mode for Digital Forensics
to solve simple cases quickly
Forensics data recovery is easier than you might think! The Easy
Mode covers almost all of your daily cases with logically damaged HDDs: checks the drive's
condition, saves the report about it, reads the drive ID and S.M.A.R.T. parameters, removes
passwords from security-locked drives, views/copies data, and much more!
High-end Full-Featured Mode
to recover as many cases of different complexity as ever possible
Full-Featured mode
Get maximum evidence from damaged storage devices by yourself or with the help of our
Technical Support Engineers no matter how difficult your case is! The mode includes top
features that you may already know from the other PC-3000 flagship solutions: PC-3000
Express and PC-3000 UDMA.
No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!
Systems to
meet your forensics data recovery demands
Together with the ACE Lab’s software products, PC-3000 Portable III
forms the systems to extract evidence from SATA/PATA/USB HDD, PCIe/SATA/USB SSD, USB Flash
drives, SD/MicroSD memory cards, and RAID both in the lab and on-site:
PC-3000 Portable Ultimate System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition + PC-3000
SSD
Extended + all extra adapters)
A must-have tool for everyday forensics data recovery thanks to the mobility, the support of the
largest number of storage media along with Standalone, Easy and Full-Featured Modes and the highest
efficiency.
Forensics data recovery from HDD & USB devices
PC-3000 Portable System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III)
Forensics data recovery from HDD & USB devices & SSD
PC-3000 Portable SSD System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III + PC-3000 SSD
Extended
Forensics data recovery from HDD & USB devices & RAID
PC-3000 Portable RAID System
(PC-3000 Portable III + Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition)
Form factor: External device (153,50х84х46,5 mm) Interface type: USB3.0 Diagnostic ports: USB 3.0 (Host), Port 0 (PCIe / SATA), Port 1
(SATA), Port 2 (SATA)
Power adapter: 4-channel independent power adapter with
protection from overvoltage and current overloading, with current and voltage
measurements Operating temperature range: 0-40°C thanks to the Climate Control
System Power Supply: External AC / DC 19 V Number of active licenses: 2 (to install the software on both a
desktop computer and a laptop) Other: Non-Volatile Memory to keep log files with date, time
(GMT), username and settings which can be used in the reports later on. The built-in
lithium power supply ensures uninterrupted operation
of the century-old calendar and world clock (UTC).
Recommended system requirements:
CPU: Intel Core i5 (4 cores, 4 threats) or AMD Ryzen 5; RAM: 8 Gb; Available disk space: 60 Gb of available disk space (for
installation of software and HDD/SSD resources); Operating system: Windows 7 (SP), 8, 10, x86, x64; Display: Widescreen Full HD 1920x1080 display. Ports: USB 3.0 Type-A port for connection of PC-3000 Portable (an
Intel xHCI HOST controller is recommended);
USB 3.0 Type-A or USB 2.0 port for PC-USB-TERMINAL connection;
Supported devices and file
systems:
SATA / PATA HDD (3.5", 2.5",1.8")
Supported interfaces:
SATA (Serial ATA) and USB devices compliant with the Mass Storage
Device specification, i.e. external USB 2.0/3.0 HDD and USB Flash
drives with logical issues (File System corruption, deleted data).
SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive).
PATA (IDE) - via a special PC SATA-PATA adapter from ACE Lab which
can be bought optionally.
Supported vendors:
Seagate, Western Digital, TOSHIBA, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Samsung,
Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum
Supported capacities:
From 40 GB and more (without upper limit)
SAS HDD / SSD (3.5", 2.5")*
Supported interfaces:
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
Supported vendors:
Seagate, Western Digital, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Fujitsu
Supported capacities:
From 80 GB and more
SSD**
Supported interfaces:
SATA II/III
M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 (NGFF) - via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe
SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit
mSATA - via a special SATA-mSATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be
bought optionally
Micro SATA, PATA, LIF, ZIF, Apple proprietary interface - via
additional adapters from third-party vendors
The Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe Macbook SSD 2013-2019
(12+16 pin) - via the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD
from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally
PCIe x1-x16 - via the PCIe x16 SSD Adapter from ACE Lab which can be
bought optionally
Supported vendors:
OCZ, Corsair, Crucial, RunCore, A-DATA, G.Skill, Micron, Plextor, Intel,
Samsung, Seagate, SanDisk, Kingston, Smartbuy, Silicon Power, PNY, AMD,
Lexar, Transcend, Patriot, GoodRam, Kingspec, Toshiba, etc. More
manufacturers are added with the updates
Supported capacities:
From 32 GB and more (without upper limit)
USB Flash***
Supported interfaces:
USB devices that comply with the Mass Storage Device specification,
i.e., external USB 2.0 / 3.0 Flash.
SD/MicroSD Memory Cards via the special 2-in-1 Card Reader Adapter
included in the delivery kit
* for dealing with SAS HDD/SSD using your PC-3000 Portable III, you need to get the
SAS adapter additionally
** to work with Solid-State drives you need the PC-3000 solution which supports SSD:
PC-3000 Portable SSD or Ultimate Systems
*** the PC-3000 Portable III is able to recover data only from logically damaged
(partition corruption, deleted files, damaged File System, etc.) Flash drives
**** to work with RAID you need the PC-3000 solution which supports RAID arrays:
PC-3000 Portable RAID or Ultimate Systems
The PC-3000 Portable III is tailored specifically for digital forensics needs! It is a
one-of-a-kind hardware-software tool for on-site forensics data recovery with the maximum
success rate. It is the most powerful and convenient
solution available on the market that contains the main principles of the PC-3000 technology
and much more to solve data recovery tasks easier and faster.
Depending on the system you choose, the PC-3000 Portable III also includes extra software
such as Data Extractor RAID Edition and PC-3000 SSD Extended to help you recover data from
not only SATA/PATA/USB HDDs, USB Flash devices, and SD/MicroSD memory cards, but also from
PCIe/SATA SSDs and RAID-arrays built from the drives based on the interfaces listed below.
More types of devices such as SAS drives are to get support in future.
Drives can be connected to the PC-3000 Portable III ports (2xSATA, 1xSATA/USB), motherboard
ports (xSATA, xUSB, etc) or represented as images.
The forensics data recovery process may additionally require spare drives for destination
copy of the
recovered evidence.
KEY FEATURES OF THE PC-3000 PORTABLE III
SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL FORENSICS
With the PC-3000 Portable III, you can easily diagnose the condition of the drive you deal
with as part of investigation and recover evidence from it even if the storage media is
damaged or password-protected. Besides, the PC-3000
has a large number of functions that are very useful for digital forensics examiners:
Storage Device Decryption
Possibility to decrypt software encrypted partitions
(Microsoft Bitlocker, Apple FileVault, TrueCrypt) and hardware encrypted
WesternDigital drives (including Self-encrypting drives) if there is a key from
the user.
So if there are scratches on the surface or other damages, you are able to open
the partition even without a full copy of the drive.
Support for forensic extensions
Support for *.E01; *.aff; *.s01; *.001 extensions for
drive images and partitions. Data export possibility into *.E01; *.aff; *.s01;
*.001 file extensions
Full access to all areas of HDD, including the Data Area,
Service Area, Mediacache, etc.
There are a lot of hidden areas in HDDs which usually are
not available during the standard work of the drive. The Techno Mode can provide
full access to all the hidden parts of HDD such as the Data Area with all
logical
sectors, Service Area with modules structure, Mediacache, and NAND Cache area in
modern HDD.
Data structures viewing and navigation mode
The supplied database of structures includes different
filesystem and file metadata
Analysis of data maps through the RAW recovery mode and
GREP search
Raw recovery is an advanced file carving. RAW recovery
mode and GREP search support a broad range of data (images, audio/video files,
archives, etc.) and file system metadata. Using them you can:
Recognize and recover most of user data even if the file system is
critically damaged
Search and analyze the integrity of files regardless of the file system
structure
Modify your custom search reference with the regular expression method,
etc.
Map building
The possibility to build maps for files, folders,
partitions, used/unused space, file system metadata, etc.
Other powerful features of PC-3000 to recover digital evidence from HDD
Sector-by-sector data copy to one or several healthy drive(s)
Export data possibility for built maps
Viewing Service Area modes for searching and recovering the lost part of data
Drives and tasks «mounting» possibility to the OS in the Read-Only mode
Ability to export the files and catalogues lists to the CSV format
Hash sum calculation for files, folders, partitions, and sector chains
Possibility to search and analyze the metadata of supported file systems
Opportunity to group and sort the files by selected parameters (name, date, type)
To solve various issues with storage media devices, there are 3 operating modes in the
PC-3000
Portable III: Standalone Mode, Easy Mode and Full-Featured Mode.
STANDALONE MODE TO CREATE DATA
IMAGES WITH UP TO 500 MB/S SPEED
Have you ever needed to work with storage media devices in the field? Thanks to the brand-new
Standalone Mode of the PC-3000 Portable III, you’re now able to solve some of your forensics
data recovery tasks without a host computer!
Easily diagnose the HDD's condition and create data images from USB Flash, SATA/PATA/USB
HDD, NVMe/SATA/USB SSD right at the crime scene! All the information is displayed in the
built-in 4” Screen and controlled with the 8-button
keyboard.
Main features of the Standalone Mode:
Drive Diagnostics
Creation of the sector-by-sector copy
Erasing (cleaning) drives
S.M.A.R.T. View
Sector View
Hash sum calculation
More functions are to be added with software updates.
How to use the Standalone Mode:
How to use diagnostic ports in the Standalone Mode:
Source ports: USB 3.0 (HOST) and Port 0 (SATA / PCIe / NVMe)
To diagnose and investigate the drive, you should connect them to the Source Ports that have
a Hardware Write Blocker - the “Wr. Protection” switch. When it’s turned on, a yellow LED
lights up and indicates that the record
block is activated.
The following drives can be connected to the Source diagnostic ports: USB Flash,
SATA/PATA*/USB HDD, PCIe NVMe/SATA/USB SSD.
*To deal with PATA HDD, you need to use an additional PC SATA-PATA adapter (can be
purchased
optionally).
Target ports: Port 1 (SATA) and Port 2 (SATA)
The Target ports are used to create image copies of data. You can create such copies on 1 or
2 drives simultaneously. Only HDD and SSD drives with the SATA interface can be connected to
the target diagnostic ports.
The copying speed in the Standalone Mode is up to 500 MB/s.
Precise logging for all operations
All operations performed in the Standalone Mode are logged and recorded into the log file
inside the Non-Volatile Memory. When you connect the controller to the host computer, you
may view or print these log files.
For the purposes of precise logging, the PC-3000 Portable III has a century calendar and the
UTC clock (world time clock) that are able to run without interruption thanks to the
built-in lithium power supply.
EASY MODE TO SOLVE SIMPLE CASES
QUICKLY
The forensics data recovery is easier than you might think! With the PC-3000 Portable III,
you can use just its Easy Mode to recover evidence from HDDs that don’t have serious issues
with the internal firmware or hardware part
without delving into the variety of deep PC-3000 functions. Even beginners in forensics data
recovery will be able to solve their first tasks quickly and efficiently!
The experienced users, in turn, will get rid of many routine steps by automating the process
of recovering evidence from logically damaged drives:
a drive power management
a complex test to check the drive's condition and possibility to save the
report about it
a drive ID and SMART data reading and analysis
a password removal for security-locked drives
data viewing
data copy creation
data erasing
working with previously created tasks
mounting a drive in the Windows OS as a logical partition, and much more!
A completely new feature — Reports Generation — allows you save/print the report about
the condition of the drive, so you can use it for further investigation. More information on
how to use the PC-3000 Portable III
Easy Mode, you may find in the video above.
How to use the Easy Mode:
FULL-FEATURED MODE TO RECOVER AS MANY
CASES OF DIFFERENT COMPLEXITY AS EVER POSSIBLE
Those engineers who prefer to fully control the process of evidence recovery will truly
appreciate the high-end Full-Featured Mode that includes top functions for the most thorough
and careful work with storage media devices.
Over a quarter of a century of in-depth research and development is behind this mode. A
scientific approach and a huge team of developers who constantly work on enhancements allows
you to get the maximum data even if the
drives are seriously damaged. No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems include the largest number (17) of special utilities
used for various vendors, architectures and HDD families:
Western Digital
WD Caviar old models
Caviar Cyl32
Caviar Cyl32 (SATA)
WDC Marvell
WDC Marvell USB/COM
Maxtor
Fujitsu
Toshiba
Toshiba 1.8, 2.5, 3.5
Toshiba 1.8, 2.5, 3.5 (USB)
Seagate
Seagate U5, Baracuda XX
Seagate F3 Architecture
Hitachi/IBM/HGST
Hitachi-IBM
Hitachi-IBM-ARM
Native 2.5 inch families
Samsung
Spin Point
Spin Point USB
Quantum/Quantum-Maxtor
No other tools have so many options to deal with different hard disk drives!
change configuration and identification parameters
reset logs and S.M.A.R.T parameters
watch and reset HDD passwords
work with the Data Extractor
How to recover evidence with the PC-3000 Portable III Systems if HDD is damaged
There are three types of HDD malfunctions: physical damage, logical damage and a
combination of physical and logical damage.
The PC-3000 Systems are the only products that combine methods for solving both
physical and
logical problems. This allows you to effectively solve the widest range of
tasks: from the
simplest to the most complex ones.
The most frequent reasons of HDD damage:
failure of one or more magnetic-resistance heads
damaged service information modules
magnetic surface defects like scratches
damaged PCB
other damage
HDD diagnosis can be done in standard (user) and technological (factory) modes. There
are special PC-3000 adapters used for switching the HDD into the technological mode
to get access to the internal HDD software and
criminal data. This opportunity is a result of many years of
diligent research directed by our vast expertise in recovering data from
HDD.
A damaged HDD can stop functioning at any time. That is why it is very
important to read the maximum data volume in the shortest period of time.
With the PC-3000 Portable III Systems, you can create both full
(sector-by-sector) or partial data copies from damaged drives. The thing is
Data Extractor Portable has integrated functionality for logical analysis of
file systems which allows reading necessary data only.
This technology greatly reduces the volume of the read data, the duty cycle
of damaged HDDs and the time required for forensics data recovery.
In many cases, it is not necessary to fully repair the HDD to get evidence.
It could suffice to correct the internal HDD software. This allows for
temporal access to user data and you can read the required information.
The issues
The solutions to the issues
One of the magnetic heads is damaged
You can get data access through the remaining heads using the “MR-Head
Shift technology”. The damaged head is substituted by the adjacent
correct magnetic head. It allows you to keep the integrity of the
translated data and to read big data volumes without exchanging the head
stack.
A problem with the initial HDD initialization
The detailed start process log can show some information that helps to
identify the damaged program modules with service information. Service
area copies can be switched over to make the correct system head
initialization. If the initialization process fails due to the problem
with loading program modules into RAM, you can use special Loader that
creates essential HDD content into RAM.
A significantly damaged surface
Technological mode allows you to read data using physical parameters in
PZCHS (Physical Zones Cylinder-Head-Sector) or line physical area with
ABA. It is very often the only way to read data from significantly
damaged surfaces.
A PCB is damaged
You can use another correct PCB taken from an HDD donor. This will save
a lot of time in gaining access to user data.
An HDD has a USB interface
USB HDD access can be done using the PC-3000 Portable III USB host port
that allows you to deal with damaged drives. If there is no access to an
HDD via the USB host port, the COM port Terminal adapter or
an adapted SATA HDD PCB are used.
To make initial diagnostics in the Full-Featured Mode, the PC-3000 universal utility
is launched. It diagnoses the HDD in user mode. The following checks are done: if
the HDD is identified and if the HDD is password
locked; check of surface access by LBA to the user data area and HDD translation
system etc. If there are any HDD malfunctions, a special vendor-specific
technological utility (intended for a specific HDD vendor)
is used to repair the drive and gain access to user data in technological mode.
The PC-3000 Portable III HDD firmware database
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems have a massive database of factory firmware
resources: FLASH ROMs, service area modules, service area tracks, and other HDD
critical resources. The database is systematized and stores
all data in compressed format. It allows getting quick and easy data access and
sharing firmware resources between several PC-3000 Kits.
The main advantages of the PC-3000 database:
The FireBird database server is used (one of the most reliable SQL
servers)
adaptive indexation mechanism is used to speed up the search process
shared firmware database can be created for use by several PC-3000 kits
at the same time
the backup policy can be managed
you can create a database with more than 4GB size
you may add your own resources, for example, new objects, from the
latest HDD models
all users can exchange resources they have between each other
Almost all modern SSDs have hardware data encryption. That’s why the chip-off method
becomes useless for accessing data on a damaged device. In this case, the Techno
Mode used in the PC-3000 SSD Systems is the only
possible way to restore logical access to data on the SSD.
This method of working with SSDs is unique and unparalleled - no other tool can
do the
same!
How the Techno Mode works
The drive works in Techno Mode
CPU is working in single-channel mode
SSD is using custom Translator
Extended capacity is available
TRIM is disabled
Service Area is unlocked
Breakthrough: PCIe SSD Support NEW!
With the PC-3000 Portable III Systems, you are now able to recover data
not only from
SATA-based SSDs but also from the PCIe ones!
The special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the
delivery kit helps you to diagnose the condition of a drive and extract
evidence from healthy and damaged PCIe SSDs.
Besides, you can use the PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD (can be
purchased separately) to deal with Apple MacBook SSD M.2 NGFF PCI-e NVMe
Macbook SSD
2013-2019 (12+16 pin). And the PCIe x16 SSD adapter allows you to deal with
native PCIe x16 - based drives.
Supported devices:
Silicon Motion Family (SM2260, SM2262, SM2263XT, HPH8068):
ADATA XPG SX7000
HP EX900
Lexar NM600
Patriot Hellfire
Radeon R5
Transcend MTE110S
Zion NFP03 (NeoForza)
Marvell Family (88SS1093):
Plextor M9Pe
Phison Family (PS5007, PS5008):
Apacer A52280P2
Gigabyte GSM2NE8
Kingston A1000
Kingston KC1000
LiteON MU X
Patriot Hellfire M2
Patriot Scorch M2
Smartbuy M8
+ many other PS5007 and PS5008-based SSDs
More utilities for different vendors will appear with future updates!
Different Utilities to work with SSDs
The PC-3000 Portable III SSD/Ultimate Systems which include the PC-3000 SSD Extended
software
can help to deal with the most complex SSD cases with such typical signs of internal
Firmware corruption as wrong or zero capacity,
no drive ID, invisible status in BIOS/OS despite the fact that a drive is connected.
The Universal Utility intended for diagnosing any SSD based on the ATA-8
specification (both currently existing models and those that will be manufactured in
the future).
The Active Utilities (Special Utilities) intended for working with a
particular drive model in factory mode. It enables us to deeply diagnose SSDs, to
perform service operations, to rewrite the drive's microcode,
to get direct access to memory chips, to carry out low-level formatting blocking the
damaged cells and placing their addresses into the defect table, and to perform many
other useful operations.
The PC-3000 SSD Extended software add-on is started from the main window of the
PC-3000
Portable SSD/Ultimate System by means of clicking a button on the desktop panel.
Key features of PC-3000 Portable SSD Systems ro recover digital evidence from SSD:
Provides direct access to the content of memory chips without the chip-off
procedure
Emulates the translator operation in order to access digital evidence
Receives information on the number of memory chips and logical parts
Saves the images of chips without soldering the NAND
Temporarily disables the TRIM command
Detects the passwords previously set on SSD
Views defects of memory chips with a Defect Manager
Uses Low-Level format commands to format the drives and restore the original
Repair Functions
On-the-fly mix elimination
Loads the microcode into the drives RAM
Reads and writes the content of the SSD ROM
Verifies and restores the SSD service information
SSD Decryption (Microsoft Bitlocker, Apple FileVault, TrueCrypt)
Working with forensic formats: *.E01, *.aff, *.s01
Turns off background processes in SSD to prevent data damage
Sector-by-sector data copy to one or several healthy drive(s)
The list of Active Utilities of the PC-3000 SSD Extended software is expanded as soon
as new SSD
models are studied, and it is a continuous process. Those utilities that are
currently available allow you to successfully recover
data from all contemporary solid-state drives and to resolve the majority of
wide-spread SSD problems. Special adapters and connectors for PC-3000 Portable III
have been added in order to use technological interfaces
to diagnose and repair drives.
Data recovery from SATA-based SSDs
Techno Mode to Deactivate TRIM and Get Evidence from Logically Damaged ADATA
SU800 SSD
A New Solution to the Most Mind-Boggling SSD Cases (Logically Damaged SanDisk
Ultra II)
Today, RAID arrays have a great number of drives and have complicated structures
(combined and proprietary levels) while several members of a RAID can have serious
physical damages (damaged surfaces, HSA, servo-information,
etc.). The file system metadata of the RAID can be also damaged.
Thus, there are several issues with RAID evidence recovery:
Working with the damaged HDDs in the RAID
Defining the array configuration
Array assembly and logical recovery of data from it
These problems may also occur simultaneously. The PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate
Systems are professional solutions that have a wide range of functions for solving
all major problems completely.
The ACE Lab RAID products cover all of your data recovery needs. Once you try
them, you do not
need anything else, because you get the easiest, fastest and smartest tools for
recovering
digital evidence from RAID.
With PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems, you do not need to be a hex-guru
to
successfully extract data from RAID!
How to recover data from damaged HDD in a RAID with the PC-3000 Portable III Systems
The PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems which include the Data Extractor RAID
Edition software can work with 3 damaged HDDs connected to the PC-3000 Portable III
ports within one task at the same time. The total
number of connected HDDs can be increased by using motherboard ports and
file-images.
The Data Extractor Portable III RAID Edition includes all Data Extractor Portable III
features + additional crucial features for working with damaged HDDs of a virtual
RAID:
Ability to make a full or partial data copy from any HDD included in the RAID
Ability to define and use a virtual translator for any HDD in the RAID or the
whole virtual RAID
Ability to manage and interact with the specialized PC-3000 Portable utility for
HDDs connected to the PC-3000 Portable III ports (power supply management, reset
commands, choice of reading command, etc.)
Advanced features for working with SCSI and SAS storage devices (full control
over reading parameters, choice of reading command, building the head map, etc.)
Ability to skip the damaged HDD while defining the array configuration or to use
data taken from a copy
Redundancy usage with the purpose of data recovery from the problematic HDDs
Integrated logical analysis features that allow for reading only the minimally
necessary amount of data from the storage device, thus reducing the load and
increasing the chances of successful recovery
Before the Data Extractor RAID Edition appeared, you would have had to have made a
full sector-by-sector copy of the data from the simple stripe if one of its members
was physically damaged and could not be connected
in a standard way, or it would not have been possible to get access to its sectors
without using the PC-3000 methods. You could only have attempted to recover the user
data after creating a copy.
Taking into account the significant capacity of high-end HDDs and possible issues
with a full copy of the damaged drive, the PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate Systems
provide a unique
approach:
Create a Virtual RAID.
Open the Virtual RAID in the Data Extractor Explorer and get an understanding of
the data organization in the virtual RAID.
Build a map of the required data. It can be a map of used sectors, a data map of
the required catalogs, a necessary file map, or a metadata map.
For the built map, build a “Sub-map” of sectors to be read from the damaged HDD.
Make a sector-by-sector copy only of these required sectors by using the Data
Extractor.
Save the required data.
How to define the array configuration
RAID configurations can be very complex. Even if the configuration appears to be
simple, the data recovery from RAID is not an easy process, because it can be
difficult to define the correct order of HDDs, the block
size and the initial shift. However, with the Data Extractor RAID Edition software
included in your system, you’ll get the most powerful, professional and smartest
approach to RAID recovery.
Key features of the PC-3000 Portable RAID/Ultimate Systems to define the array
configuration:
Unique auto-detection mode for a wide range of configurations. This mode is
based on the analysis of file systems and user data
A powerful interactive mode that allows for easily defining unusual
configurations, and very flexible automatic operations with an ability to
control the current result
Useful search tools help define numerous RAID parameters including detecting the
size and reviewing the file system structures, metadata with disk structure
(MBR, GPT, etc.), including the metadata with the virtual
RAID organization (mdadm RAID superblock), and analysis of the information from
LDM
Array parameters can be defined without touching defective HDDs
"RAID member statistics" — this mode allows you to reliably and clearly detect
basic RAID parameters: block size, level of the array, number of members, delay
Even if you know the full configuration of a RAID and there are no problems with the
damaged HDD, recovering digital evidence from a RAID can be a complicated task for
multiple reasons: a large number of drives which
need to be connected simultaneously, slow read speeds, impossibility to assemble an
unusual array configuration or logical damages.
How the PC-3000 Portable III RAID/Ultimate Systems can help you to simplify this
job:
You can connect up to 3 HDDs to the PC-3000 Portable III ports in addition to
the local motherboard ports and image files
High read speed from the virtual RAID
An extended list of standard RAID levels with the possibility of defining new
unknown levels
Ability to recover and check the integrity of data for arrays with redundancy
All logical recovery modes can be used for the virtual RAID
Map building can be done by taking into account the map position of a specific
RAID member. You can choose the specific sectors for a file map or RAID
partition
The new PC-3000 Express/UDMA/SAS/Portable software version 7.5.x has been released.
PC-3000 Ver. 7.5.x
Data Extractor Ver. 6.5.x
PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.5.x
The latest update brings a lot of new useful features, like full support of 4K displays into the PC-3000 interface, new families for WD Marvell and Seagate F3, the new HDD ROM wizard for Seagate drives as well as the new implementation of T2 translator recovery with WDC Marvell utilities and the new Silicon Motion controllers.
It’s one of the biggest PC-3000 updates ever, and it brings so many changes and improvements. The ACE Lab team is sure that it will significantly help PC-3000 users to increase their modern drives’ recovery rate!
ACE Lab technical engineers have made a short overview video of the new features available in the latest update. We highly recommend you to watch it from beginning to end for better understanding how the new modes and features work. Feel free to send your questions in our TS ticket system: https://ts.acelab.eu.com and enjoy our new PC-3000 7.4.x update!
The latest PC-3000 Software is available! The new update has brought a lot of cool features for Western Digital and Seagate HDDs, including new drive families and expanded recovery options for SMR drives, new SSD loaders, a new CPU Utility for MAXIO controllers and much more.
All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
PC-3000 Ver. 7.3.6
Data Extractor Ver. 6.3.6
PC-3000 SSD Ver. 3.3.3
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software version.
The latest PC-3000 Software is available! Thanks to the new SDK we have recently switched to, it's already been the 3rd major software update released this year.
The new update has brought the enhanced T2 Reading and Analysis Mode, the support of PS5012, PS3112, and of new SAS SSDs, as well as many more other useful features to improve your work with data recovery cases! All this is available in the freshly-released versions of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
Great news for the data recovery community: with the new PC-3000 Software Update, you can unlock the Techno Mode for WD SED drives of all SMR 2.5" and 3.5” families without any custom PCB. It’s the easiest and most convenient way how to do this!
This release has also brought the support of LVM2 thin pools and PS5016 PCIe 4.0 NVME drives as well as loaders for PS3111 and SM2259XT controllers. These features and many more are already available in the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:
At the ACE
Lab Webinar on the Modern Challenges in Data Recovery & Digital Forensics, our technical engineers
showed the features available with the PC-3000 Version 7.0.x., for example, TLER (time-limited error recovery) for
WD HDD, the Data Extractor error-processing scenario, and the support of new NVMe drives based on Marvell 88SS1093
controller. These features and more are now available in the latest version of the PC-3000 Software:
Since now, it's possible to work with Phison PS3111-based drives, which have
YMTC NAND memory on board. The new update brings an opportunity to decrypt
the external USB drive Transcend ESD230C with SM2258XT controller, and also
it brings extended loaders support for SM2259XT drives, improvements in
software stability and speed.
Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and
Korean software:
The ACE Lab Online TechCon on Data
Recovery & Digital Forensics 2021 revealed a huge number of the
most up-to-date features for your PC-3000 tools: support of the new drives
families and controllers, T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives, a new
class of additional maps, and many others functions that make your data
recovery job easier and faster.
Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese and
Korean software:
We continually enhance the PC-3000 tools by adding new modes, algorithms, and
functions. Today we are
glad to announce that the following English, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese
software updates are
released:
PC-3000 Portable-II/Portable-III/Express/UDMA-e version 6.8.8
PC-3000 SAS-I/SAS-II version 6.8.8
Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.11.5
PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended version 2.9.5
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software
versions.
ACE lab developers have done a great job by researching Silicon Motion
SM2258XT SSDs and optimizing
the algorithms to make the most efficient and stable Utility for this type
of the drives. As such,
you can now raise your data recovery success rate by dealing with Silicon
Power Slim S55, KingDian
S200, WD Green, Apacer AS350 Panther, Patriot P200, Smartbuy Jolt, RevuAhn
885, Crucial BX500, and
other SM2258XT SSDs.
The support appears with the beta version of the PC-3000 SSD Extended
software ver. 2.9.3 available
for the PC-3000 Portable III users. To get the beta version of the
software, please contactour Technical Support
Department.
The ACE Lab developers constantly research drives which results in a rapid
expansion of the support list for the most modern storage media devices.
Today, we have released PC-3000 SSD Extended – the new software
add-on that supports the widest range of SSD types: SATA, mSATA, M.2 SATA,
M.2 PCIe NVMe/АHCI, PCIe x16, Apple Macbook, LIF, ZIF, PATA.
The additional features of the PC-3000 SSD Extended add-on for PCIe SSD
(NVMe/AHCI) appear with the beta version of software available for the
PC-3000 Portable III users only. To get the beta version of the software,
please contactour Technical
Support Department.
Last week, you saw a lot of new PC-3000 functions at the ACE Lab Online
Technology Conference on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2020. Today
all these features are waiting for you in your update boxes! The
following English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean software updates are
released:
PC-3000 Express/UDMA-e/Portable-II/Portable-III) version 6.7.12
Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition version 5.10.7
PC-3000 SSD version 2.8.2
All authorized technical support users will get the latest software
versions.
The PC-3000 Portable III is the first and the only solution for recovering
data from PCIe NVMe SSDs using the Techno Mode. At the initial release, it
supported only Silicon Motion SSDs based on SM2260 and SM2263
controllers. But it was just the beginning!
Now we have significantly expanded the list of supported drives by adding the
NVMe SSDs based on the Phison PS5007 controller. And since all the
PS5007-based SSDs are technically the same, you can recover data from
any model based on this controller, even if it’s not listed in the
Utility.
ACE Lab developers continue enhancing the software of the PC-3000 Portable III System
with new features for the user community. As a result, the most universal
and
powerful tool became even faster – now the speed of internal copying
is up to 490 MB/s. We also added the support of HDDs and SSDs with a logical
sector size other than 512 bytes that had not previously
been possible. Besides, it’s no longer required to disable the Secure
Boot option in UEFI (BIOS) before the PC-3000 Portable III installation.
The well-designed and flexible architecture of the PC-3000 Portable III
allows the ACE Lab developers to continue enhancing this incredibly powerful
product on the software and internal firmware levels. As such,
you get a hardware-software tool that is constantly evolving by obtaining a
lot of new features and supporting new models of storage media devices,
along with new standards and interfaces.
There are so many features that have been added to the PC-3000 Portable III
just within one month! Take a glance at them by clicking the link below.
The PC-3000 Portable III Systems come with a new version of the PC-3000
software ver. 6.7.x and Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition
ver.5.10.x. More details are below:
WD Marvell
Added Charger family support;
For SMR HDD (Spyglass, Palmer, Charger):
Added map building based on second-level translator
data, disabling Read Defrag;
the restriction on the volume (65535 sectors) read by
the module ID has been removed;
Added technological reading by PBA (reading is possible
if a second-level translator is lost).
For the PC-3000 Portable-III complex, a logical scan has been
added for the USB / COM utility (for the USB Host port).
Seagate F3
Added support for the following families:
7A Makara, 8B Lamarr, 91 MakaraPlus, 95 Hepburn Oasis,
9B V11, A1 M11, A6 Nemo, AF Rosewood AF / Janus;
UnlockTech code rewritten to ensure minimum size in ROM;
A mechanism for expanding the BOOTFW segment in ROM for
UnlockTech has been made for the AF Rosewood AF / Janus family;
For the families GrenadaBP2, Bacall, PharaohOasis, HepburnOasis,
the loader loading permission code has been improved:
from BFW (integrated into UnlockTech);
from DFW (available from: ROM Wizard or Auto
Initialization Wizard, function "Switch off extended LOD
checking(RAM)".
For reading modules, the selection of a working copy has been
added (auto, 1, 2). If "auto" is selected, the disk reads and
selects the copy by itself;
- When recording modules and Sys Files, you can separately
select which copy to save;
- When recording modules and Sys Files, the last selected folder
is now remembered;
- When writing ROM, the last selected terminal speed is now
saved;
- The ability to save the selected region of RAM via ATA has
been added to the procedure of HDD resources backup;
- Added head test for reading / writing SA modules: DST_WRTESTx,
where x = 0..7 - head numbers (i.e. modules 22..29);
- The option to work via terminal has been added to maps of
logical and physical heads to edit the block of SAP parameters
(Servo Adaptives Parameters) in RAM - MaxHead;
Added active utility actions for Data Extractor:
"Download the write lock to RAM HDD (ATA)";
"No HOST BSY -> RDY" - receiving the state of readiness
for some damage to SA leading to BUSY;
"Switch off extended LOD checking(RAM)”;
"Clear device fault state (RAM)";
"Download translator to RAM HDD";
"Download MCMT to RAM HDD.
Plugins and add-ons to them:
Plugin "MCMT extent edit" - extent editor in MediaCache;
"MCMT \ Edit" - added the ability to cut TRIM extents;
In the parser "MCMT \ Parser" you can now filter TRIM
records and save them into a separate map file.
New feature for direct work with DiskFW has been added in "Work
with Flash ROM image file" menu: through reading/writing Sys
File (Terminal/ATA Direct/ATA Indirect - Utility status
settings);
New patches/actions have been added in the "Work with
Flash ROM image file" menu:
The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA
SysDef reading) and patch removal;
The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on
DiskFW);
The patch clearing DAP / CELog (Critical Event Log) in
ROM;
The "Kahuna/GrenadaSSHD CFW/DFW patch 2" patch - to get
Terminal access in case of NAND damage;
The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch and patch
removal;
The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)"
action.
New patches/actions has been added in the "HDD
Autoinitialization":
The "Block native DFW boot" patch from SA (to bypass SA
SysDef reading);
The "Show Device Fault reason at start" patch (impact on
DiskFW);
The "Desaru LED67 FAddr: 0038xxxx" patch;
The "No HOST FIS-ReadyStatusFlags, BSY -> RDY (HDD RAM)"
post-action;
The "Load translator to HDD" post-action;
The "Load MCMT" post-action.
Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been
included into all ROM reading/writing options;
Control and warning message about adaptives corruption has been
included into all ROM reading/writing options;
Defect hiding procedure and translator regeneration via ATA have
been improved - for Rosewood and similar families;
In case of Alternative initialization through terminal
(ROM/DiskFW) sys files are saved in profile folder;
BootFW and BootCode switches have been added to the "User
commands" menu.
7200.10 NHawk has been added to the Family list (same block with
Galaxy).
HITACHI-IBM-ARM
Autofilter has been added for different object types in Work
with SA objects menu;
Warning messages have been added for ROM writing option:
Warning before ROM writing - "If it fails, it needs a
programmer for ROM rewrite";
Warning before ROM writing - "For ROM write it needs to
be code overlays loaded in HDD RAM";
Warning before ROM writing - "ROM write may take some
minutes to perform".
Samsung HDD
The "Send "LE"" ("LE" package) has been added in the "Utility
Actions";
In defect's editor fixed error when it was impossible to enter
a cylinder number greater than 0xFFFF when adding a defect;
In "Reading modules" test fixed error when the module was first
read, and then the "Skip Existing Modules" checkbox was checked;
In "Disabling zone and heads" test fixed error when it was
impossible to interrupt the running process;
Added header check when editing the SNTBL module;
Added possibility to reserve modules not only by composing
reading but with chosen heads;
For Samsung "USB Utility" (USB host Portable3 version) added the
test "Logical Scan";
Added the "Reconnect COM port" menu;
Added possibility to clear module directly in ROM dump to the
"Clearing FIPS module";
Added autopower switching after reading ROM from the drive to
the "Initializing HDD with editing the head map in RAM" test. In
some cases the drive may freeze after reading ROM;
Added S.M.A.R.T. enabling in module B2 PROFILE to the
"S.M.A.R.T. Clearing" (by utility method). For M8E drives that
pass the burn-test;
Added possibility to choose values from the list of standard
capacities to the "Passport data editor" test and the menu "Set
max LBA" from the "Disabling zones and Heads" test;
Added menu for selecting zones according to the CHS list and the
A-LIST table to the "Disabling zones and heads";
In order to unify it with other utilities, the “Formatting” test
has been moved to a separate quick access menu;
For F1_3D, F2_EG, N2B, N3 families loaders are replaced. New
loaders have the ability to write a ROM dump to the drive
completely, including a head map;
Added the "Change the head map in ROM" test for drives F1_3D,
F2_EG, F3, M7S2, N2B, F3_4D, M7E, F4_3D, F4, M8E, MT2, N3, MP4,
M9T;
Samsung USB utility adapted to work with USB-Host port PC-3000
Portable 3.
Toshiba
Added a logical scan for the PC-3000 Portable-III complex and
for the USB Utility (for the USB Host port).
The PC-3000 Core
A completely redesigned simplified interface. Added support for
NVMe and USB drives. Added report on the results of diagnostics
and statistics on a copy creation.
Imaging speed increased by increasing priority of threads
engaged in "secondary" parsing processes (background analysis,
writing and reading maps) and energy saving settings changes (%
of process using
etc). Due to these improvements imaging speed was increased to
minimum reading speed of two devices (source and patient). For
example, the PC-3000 SAS II device is able to perform imaging
with about
220 MB/sec;
Alternative maps
real-time coloring possibility for alternative map
(during the reading process for example) was added;
real-time coloring possibility for alternative map on
drives with changed sector size and "connected" map
during the reading initial drives was added;
"Snapshots based on legend" alternative maps for File
systems option was added.
During the saving process from the searching window now only
saves files that meet the search criteria;
RAW recovery
Fixed the Fake APFS structures searching result issue;
Some types of files control has been improved to avoid possible
fake searching result;
*.heic files are parsing now (before determined like *.mp4);
DHF and WFS structures searching has been added, also virtual
partitions adding methods has been improved.
Virtual Drive - Map Decrypted:
Added support of 256 bit keys;
Added support of AES-CBC-WithoutDiffusor algorithms.
FileVault
Metadata parsing has been improved. Loading speed has
been improved.
EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey files is no longer required
for a lot of tasks;
Unicode passwords are supported now.
BitLocker
Added support of Partitions with few recovery keys;
Added support of Unicode passwords.
VeraCrypt
Added support of VeraCrypt (though without Camellia and
Kuznechik algorithms for now).
F2FS File system
Primary support of FS added.
NTFS file system
Added parser for NTFS LogFile. LogFile contains NTFS
metadata changes (MFT, Index). Option is in the context
menu of file system node (menu "Parse LFS", LFS stands
for Log File Service). As a
result, the virtual disk with so-called layers is
created. It's possible to select a layer on the disk.
Layer presents a snapshot of metadata at a certain time
period. Number of layers correlates
with the "age" of the layer. Based on practice, LogFile
can contain metadata for a time period from several
hours to several months.
Implemented basic support for the new type of EFS
metadata.
Improved start offset detection for partitions with huge
amount of non-resident catalogs;
Added support for MFT uploading for tasks with several
disks.
Implemented saving procedure for deduplicated files with
resident attribute C0.
UFS file system
Improves partition analysis with file extensions with
more than 8 unicode symbols.
ExFAT file system
Improved partition analysis. Added parser for objects
addressed by FAT table without descriptors in catalogs
(LostFatObjects node).
FAT file system
Improved analysis for cases with more than 10000
catalogs;
Added support for the FAT table with more than 200000
sectors.
HFS+ file system
Improved performance of partition analysis.
Silicon Motion
eNew loaders have been added for SM2246EN and SM2246XT
controllers;
During translator building an output of the total number of
defective pages has been added into the log;
Tests for translator saving and uploading have been added;
Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during
drive initialization and in "Memory chips test"
SM2246EN (SATA) controller:
New family Transcend 370s has been added;
SM2258XT (SATA) controller:
New family Silicon Power S55 has been added;
SM2260G (NVMe) controller:
New family ADATA XPG SX7000 has been added;
SM2263XT (NVMe) controller:
The following families have been added: AMD Radeon R5,
Transcend MTE110S, Lexar NM600, Neo Forza Zion NFP03, HP
EX900.
Phison
For PS3108, PS3111 and AS2258 controllers new loaders have been
added;
Algorithm for correct Loader version autodetection in case if
SSD stays in SAFE MODE has been improved;
Verification of wrong memory ID has been added into log during
drive initialization and in "Memory chips test".