Data recovery from Samsung SSD LIF RAID

With increasing popularity of SSDs, which is caused by their increased affordability, vendors more often deploy these drives in their machines. In some cases, however, not the usual solid state, but different combinations of SSD are included to construct the RAID array. These technologies are used, in particular, to increase the speed of the whole disk.

The same pattern can be seen in top equipment from Samsung, which uses 240 gigabytes of disk composed of 2x128 GB SSD 1.8 "LIF MZ-RPA1280 / 0S0. Each disk is composed of two separate 60 gigabytes modules. The 60 gigabytes modules are guided separately and self RAID0 configuration takes place only on the basis of information from the motherboard.

SSD diskwas delivered to us due to data loss after the disk was not detected in BIOS of a computer.

During diagnosis, we found fairly extensive damage of memory cells in two SSD modules. In order to successfully complete a rescue, it was necessary to read each SSD separately and subsequently assemble the exact configuration of RAID0. Data recovery ran the result of 95% of data fully recovered and a 5% damage due to faulty memory cells. We were able to accurately locate and report the corrupted data to the customer.Fortunately, most of the data was situated outside the user data.

A similar solution was carried out in case of top devices of other manufacturers (Sony Vaio, MacBook Air, ....)