Data Recovery & Solid State

theoverlay writes "With all of the recent hype about solid-state drives in both consumer applications and enterprise environments I have a real concern about data recovery on these devices. I know there are services for flash memory restoration but has anyone been involved in data restoration projects on ssd drives? What are the limits and circumstances that have surfaced so far? What tools will law enforcement and government use to retrieve data for investigations and the like?"

Comments

Re:Honk! Honk!

[phillips321]

I wish the US would spend more time inventing special 'erasers' that behave like god sends. Turn it on, and within less than a second the mother-in-law completely disappears.

MOD PARENT UP (not a troll)

[mkcmkc]

Parent is not a troll--his answer is the answer to this question.

If you're wanting to know about recovery for security purposes, as in, "how do I destroy this thing so that no one can recover data from it?", that's an interesting and useful question. If you're just wanting to know out of general curiosity, it's also an interesting question.

But if you're thinking about what might be possible as part of disaster recovery, you've completely lost the plot. This thought seems to spring from the same well as the idea that "mirroring" can be used for backups. No, no, a thousand times no.

Troll?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I don't see the troll rating as being accurate. Overrated ... perhaps. I didn't think someone was going to be posting the answer to my question a few seconds before I asked it. In any case, that was not an attempt to troll. Meta mods... do your magic.