USB Flash Device Recovery:

Data recovery services are provided for flash devices hard drives that no longer operate due to electrical or physical damage.

• Read our data recovery process article.
• Read what you need to know when choosing a data recovery service provider.
• Read what you should do if your storage device has failed.

About Flash Memory:

There are 2 main components to any flash storage device.

1. The first device is called NAND memory and is responsible for storing data in digital form.
2. The second device is called a controller or translator. The translator enables the computer to read and write to the memory. Translators are present in both memory card and USB flash based storage devices.

Translators also store unique information about the memory card and commonly encrypt data located on the NAND for faster access times and to ensure storage reliability. In order for a USB flash device to function properly both the NAND and the translator must be in good working order.

Due to the complexity of translators and the gross amount of manufacturers (there are hundreds), iCube Development does not repair translators. Instead, iCube Development will directly extract the flash (NAND) memory and attempt to duplicate memory for further recovery.

In most cases the NAND memory does not fail, USB flash devices typically fail due to a defective translator. iCube Development is able to perform recovery services for all USB, USB 2.0, and USB 3.0 based storage devices. We also recover data from xD, Secure Digital (SD) or SDHC (mini and micro) versions, Compact Flash, and Memory Stick (MS) devices.

NAND data recovery is black and white, this is to say the information stored in NAND memory either exists or it does not. iCube Development uses a combination of specialized hardware based memory readers in combination with decoding software to reproduce NAND content.