@LarryFrieson

5 months ago

That was my SSD. It failed on 1/24/2023, and has has taken the majority of the year to be passed between two other recovery houses, before we sent it here. I find it very interesting that the day it failed, I noticed that it was drawing my entire USB bus (or probably more accurately the 12 and/or 5v rails in the power supply) down. (Pardon my ignorance, I don't know what voltages SATA/SSDs use.) The drive failed overnight, and there were no unique events that lead up to the failure. I did notice my P/S making an unfriendly noise while it was still in the PC. After I removed the SSD, of course that stopped. I first tried to read it with a powered external USB to SATA adapter, and noticed that the little blue LED on the adapter went very dim, and the SSD was making a not-friendly-buzzing sound while it was connected. That's when I immediately handed it over to IT and asked that it be sent out to be recovered. Two recovery houses deemed it unrecoverable, before I suggested we send it here. I can't thank you enough for the fix! I will be promoting you every chance I get! (Hummm. I have a drawer full of old spinning disks that have failed over the years that I can't bring myself to discard...maybe there's still hope for them too!!) This is a testament of what can be done with the proper tools, knowledge and someone who knows how to use said tools, and of course...knows exactly what they are doing! I had almost given up on getting my VM's, and some 8 years of code back. (Meh. ~2 years since the previous backups.) Mostly, time an effort that had been put into the 6+ VM's I have on that drive. Thank you Alex, it was a pleasure to watch this diagnosis and repair!

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