128GB SanDisk Monolithic SD Card

[lcoughey]

We were able to read this card using our Spider Board with our PC3000-Flash recovery system. Sadly, getting the dump of the internal NAND is the easy part.

[Joep]

Ball park figure, what does the PC3000 Flash cost and what are annual costs? So I have something I compare with Flash Extractor. If you had none of them, which would you buy with your current knowledge?

[lcoughey]

I believe that PC3K Flash is around $2400 USD with annual updates for around $700. But, I could be off by a few hundred dollars. Basically, the up front fee is more than Flash Extractor, but the annual updates is much cheaper.

[Joep]

Thank you Luke!

[ddrecovery]

If you had none of them, which would you buy with your current knowledge?

I have all three of these products and here is my take on them all.

PC3K Flash:
Pros - It has an easily to understand UI and takes you through a recovery step by step.
Cons - If ECC and XOR is not in the database, then a chip is quite often unrecoverable. New chips not in the database cannot be set up easily.

VNR:
Pros - Can set up new chips, develop and extract ECC and XOR.
Cons - Can be confusing to use, you NEED a training class to understand it.

FE:
Pros - Extensive daatbases for ECC and XOR.
Cons - Poor UI, very slow support.

Hope this helps Joep.

[Joep]

Definitively! Thanks Luke! Thanks Tim!

[lcoughey]

If your goal is to just get the NAND dumps to play with, buying the Flash Extractor NAND Reader is pretty cheap and doesn't require a full license to get the dumps. But, in order to run the app to piece them together and recover the data, you'll need the license.

[italyassistance]

Honestly I think that the spiderboard has little efficiency I use it but using the needles is complicated and you have to be very careful because they easily move and can damage the monolithic, what do you think?

[lcoughey]

Yeah, I find the spiderboard needles too large, causing some serious gymnastics to be needed in tight spaces...and it does scare me that a simple slip can cause some pretty nasty damage.

[ddrecovery]

Also the spider board doesn't tell you if you don't have a connection. ie it will tell you if there is a short on a connection, but if you have missed a pin, it will still say the connection is good and show it as green.