17/08/2026
REAL DATA RECOVERY CASE — A New SSD, Precious Wedding Memories… and One Year Later
A customer came to our lab with a 512GB HIKSEMI SSD containing something far more valuable than the drive itself:
His wedding videos and personal memories.
The SSD was purchased new. The data was copied to it, accessed only once or twice, and then the drive was stored away for approximately one year.
It sounds like a safe way to preserve important data.
Unfortunately, when the SSD was needed again, things were very different.
🔬 The drive is currently undergoing professional imaging in our laboratory using PC-3000.
Current reading speed:
⚠️ Approximately 235.6 KB/s
For a modern SSD, that is exceptionally poor read performance and indicates that recovering the data may require careful, controlled acquisition rather than ordinary file copying.
The exact failure mechanism is still under investigation, so we won't jump to conclusions. But this case highlights an important lesson:
An SSD should not be your only long-term archive for irreplaceable memories.
Whether it's wedding videos, family photographs, business databases or other critical data, always maintain multiple independent copies.
We'll share the outcome of this case once imaging and analysis are complete.
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