I have one SD card I can't recover. Damn thing snapped in half after it dropped to the ground... And ran over by my wheel chair. I still kick myself in the ass for that.
It's the same when you watch a cooking show. My half-shell double boiler semi griller with integrated 3 prong fork is readily available under the counter.
The insane part is that this is still on the easier side of things. It can get so much worse if either the SD card is more damaged or the information is corrupted.
For anyone wondering, there is documentation that tells you where to put each pin depending on the SD card and recovery spider/software you are using. Still SUPER COOL!
Yup, the pinout is part of the standard -- they expected SD cards to be used as surface-mount components, as an alternative to a regular SPI Flash chip; though it turns out pretty rare they get used that way.
Drill the drive, the only way to ensure total unrecoverability. I worked for a bank and when drives were pulled from our data centre we had to have the techs physically destroy the device in front of our staff to verify that their data couldn’t be recovered in any way. Drills and heavy magnets are a good combo
When I worked for a bank 15 years ago, we had a special drill press enclosed in a plexiglass box to destroy drives. The sounds that thing made. Nowadays we hire data destruction companies who come onsite in big box trucks with industrial grade metal shredders and chuck the whole drive in to be shredded to bits (which presumably gets sold off as scrap metal). The sound even across the parking lot was insane, even with ear plugs.
The US navy for their hard drives off of subs at least around 2011. Were brought into a room by armed guard in locked boxes in a locked trolley with tags on everything then zeroed and rewritten a 1000 times drilled boxed tagged carted to another place to be put through an ark furnace.
Until quantum computers can calculate every permutation of possible memory configurations. Which is a very real possibility. The algorithms from there I'm not sure. The first one would be a filter using AI to eliminate every permutation that would be nonsensical static, which would be the vast majority of permutations. But amongst those permutations, an exact copy of your hard drive would exist. It's just a matter of separating it from the rest of them that's the tricky part.
That would be far from practical. If you imagine the largest storage device that will be commercially available by the time that tech can make any sort of sense, then consider that you'd have to store every possible configuration you calculate in order to process it, you're left with more storage space required than we could ever hope to store. Just for a 20 TB drive which is very common today, that's more copies of the disk than atoms in the known universe.
It might be possible when we evolve to a point where we're creating our own universes. But even then it'd be seen as an annoying task in the best case. Better be some damned good porn to recover on that disk.
We are talking insanely enormous different configurations, far beyond anything any human can possibly imagine (no, way further than that). 1 byte, or 8 bits (ones or zeros) has 2^8 configurations = 256. A 1 terabyte drive has 2^8 trillion = 7 × 10^2408239965311 configurations. For comparison there are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire universe. No quantum nothing is going to calculate that in the next 400 trillion years (probably far far more time is needed)
I actually had some movie and cartoon series torrents on a solid state drive and accidently formatted and lost them, some shit thats actually difficult to find a physical copy so I'd put effort into getting that back
Hey. Sometimes those photos or videos are no longer available and are considered lost media. We lost so much during the purges a few years ago. So much home made as well as professional quality too.
I just had a 256gb micro sd corrupt. Lost almost all of our weddings pictures and video. Card was spanking new. Didn’t survive the flight home. :/ What do.
Gracethehedgehog
looks like some BDSM for data
jalcantara88127001
TIL ..... Something
CasualMemeLord
I have one SD card I can't recover. Damn thing snapped in half after it dropped to the ground... And ran over by my wheel chair. I still kick myself in the ass for that.
Rabidbacon
ATotalEclipseOfTheFart
Thanks for the tip. I've got all these laying around the house, so should be a simple project.
languex
It's the same when you watch a cooking show. My half-shell double boiler semi griller with integrated 3 prong fork is readily available under the counter.
d0nburto
awesome
escargogurt
I did not expect there to be divining rods involved
toolzgalore2
Assuming the nand didn't fail, which is not usually the case, but damn I would love to teach myself how to do this
idontlikepickingusername
That spider board is only $3000, I'm actually trying to develop this type of thing but using a socket and memory reader instead.
toolzgalore2
I thought those boards were relatively inexpensive, but the software like pc3000 costs a LOT
warpfactor1
There's literally no teaching/learning with this setup
Buy the spiderboard, put pins per the instructions, connect board to computer with usb interface and read contents of sd
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Magic
Got it
oldDudeButNotThatOld
I'm mad this didn't play a Rick roll
SyntheticReindeer
Man I'd love to work with this, anyone got any recommendations regarding what path to choose to become a data recovery person?
Bigcurly2000
Who else thought the thumbnail was some kind of eldritch spider horror crawling out of a hell portal?
cyberstormtrooper
I always suspected micro SD cards had a boot sector on them. CONFIRMED
RetrogradeLlama
Yeah, I do that in my livingroom all the time using jumper cables.
AzgarOgly
using jumper cables on someone who is not willing to provide you with information you want?
RetrogradeLlama
Never mind the reason
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
The same ones your dad beat you with?
HippoTel
komradeklutch
Most people can barely shave without cutting their faces nevermind whatever the fuck I just watched
4vie
It looks like those things are drip-feeding electrons straight into the components themselves. Anyone else seeing that?
RElGNMAN
I'm in....
Hurro
This kills the card.
CallMeMcGyver
I gave an upvote for keeping this gag alive.
8FootedAlgaeEater
It was already dead.
Dasnekones
The insane part is that this is still on the easier side of things. It can get so much worse if either the SD card is more damaged or the information is corrupted.
bunnyandbear
Fiberglass brush for removing the enclosing coating?
BurnieCinders
yeah, what's that pen thing at the start?
rukeman
So simple a baby could do it.
dnsbubba
I prefer to go with the tried and true method of, "Don't."
psyched91
"click the link to watch the full video". Thanks for not posting the link.. :P
clearlyselfloving
this might as well be magic
mindstorm8191
Yeah, that spider tool in action looks like some kind of arcane circle magic (or something)
AzgarOgly
it is magic if you don't understand how does it work
according to Clarke's third law
toolzgalore2
For anyone wondering, there is documentation that tells you where to put each pin depending on the SD card and recovery spider/software you are using. Still SUPER COOL!
SherMattLockSmith
IIRC you can actually buy this setup, or ones very close to it, as a kit if you feel like taking a shot at it yourself.
T3sl4co1l
Yup, the pinout is part of the standard -- they expected SD cards to be used as surface-mount components, as an alternative to a regular SPI Flash chip; though it turns out pretty rare they get used that way.
mike13815
Yeah it's easier and cheaper to just solder a full microsd to my PCBs. Microcenter and newegg have random sales, just stock up monthly.
iamforsaken
I have an early 2000s mp3 player that has recordings of my niece as a baby including her first laugh. I hope I can get the data off it someday.
i7hqag58ur5
Spider board, spider board
coderay
How to recover data from a broken SD card: pay this guy to do it.
lewdev
It's one of those: I could totally fuck it up, so I'm going to pay someone else who knows what they're doing.
VibratingNipples
I just smash them with a slug hammer
coothlesscthulhu
Or a hammerhead slug
GreyKnightTemplar666
This is why I melt my HDDs and SSDs, can't recover what's it atomized
decarnatedame
That's really putting it in the cloud!
weidermeijer
I swallow mine. No one wants them back.
Zed152
A microsd might survive.
GutenTagHerrFraulein
lol +1
underestimated37
Drill the drive, the only way to ensure total unrecoverability. I worked for a bank and when drives were pulled from our data centre we had to have the techs physically destroy the device in front of our staff to verify that their data couldn’t be recovered in any way. Drills and heavy magnets are a good combo
WhiskyBravo
When I worked for a bank 15 years ago, we had a special drill press enclosed in a plexiglass box to destroy drives. The sounds that thing made. Nowadays we hire data destruction companies who come onsite in big box trucks with industrial grade metal shredders and chuck the whole drive in to be shredded to bits (which presumably gets sold off as scrap metal). The sound even across the parking lot was insane, even with ear plugs.
vilikke
We use shredders that grind ssds and the like into a powder about as fine as table salt, and a degausser pumping out 40k Gauss for hard disks
criticalmassdriver
The US navy for their hard drives off of subs at least around 2011. Were brought into a room by armed guard in locked boxes in a locked trolley with tags on everything then zeroed and rewritten a 1000 times drilled boxed tagged carted to another place to be put through an ark furnace.
Hammerwell
Paid by the hour?
criticalmassdriver
It was paid at the end of the job by the subcontractor.
Beezlebubble
Super magnet and a hammer.
GreyKnightTemplar666
I do that more often. But a little thermite is fun from time to time
vimnnn
As a treat
Beezlebubble
Some rust and powder aluminum foil go boom
HighMagosSquidward
Until quantum computers can calculate every permutation of possible memory configurations. Which is a very real possibility. The algorithms from there I'm not sure. The first one would be a filter using AI to eliminate every permutation that would be nonsensical static, which would be the vast majority of permutations. But amongst those permutations, an exact copy of your hard drive would exist. It's just a matter of separating it from the rest of them that's the tricky part.
trigonman3
lol
SaltySlugs
That would be far from practical. If you imagine the largest storage device that will be commercially available by the time that tech can make any sort of sense, then consider that you'd have to store every possible configuration you calculate in order to process it, you're left with more storage space required than we could ever hope to store. Just for a 20 TB drive which is very common today, that's more copies of the disk than atoms in the known universe.
SaltySlugs
It might be possible when we evolve to a point where we're creating our own universes. But even then it'd be seen as an annoying task in the best case. Better be some damned good porn to recover on that disk.
QuartzPoker
The right answer can be found in an infinite set of data, but so can every wrong answer
Fairemont
You'd be just as likely to have success asking Debbie in accounting to guess what was on it lmao
KaptainObveeus
We are talking insanely enormous different configurations, far beyond anything any human can possibly imagine (no, way further than that). 1 byte, or 8 bits (ones or zeros) has 2^8 configurations = 256. A 1 terabyte drive has 2^8 trillion = 7 × 10^2408239965311 configurations. For comparison there are only about 10^80 atoms in the entire universe. No quantum nothing is going to calculate that in the next 400 trillion years (probably far far more time is needed)
nobodyspecial995
That's a lot of work just to get your porn collection back.
Redshadow09
It's worth it.
eathotdog
I actually had some movie and cartoon series torrents on a solid state drive and accidently formatted and lost them, some shit thats actually difficult to find a physical copy so I'd put effort into getting that back
CarlBassett
It's easier than data recovery on a hard drive.
inspiringandfunnyusernamecoolheh
bob72012412
My wife is Columbo
firlefranz
…one more thing!
v
rezexelon
A 16GB porn collection? What is this, 1992?
AzgarOgly
Whatever the client pays for.
Lot of work costs lot of moneys.
Do backups, children.
Multiple backups and store them in different places.
BryanLaserEpee
Prison pocket, got it
Valthek
3 copies of your data, two different media, at least one offsite. And check your backups regularly to make sure they work
historycat
Or realize, there's always more porn.
AlmostHappy
My cloud storage does that for me. I pay through the nose.
AzgarOgly
Cloud storage is very convenient. But it is not very good medium for backing up your digital life.
BeaverOnFire
When Grandma is dead, the porn you make with her is not the same as the memories those photos hold of when you made porn together while she was alive.
Anarchduke
You're making porn with your grandmother's body. Its not gonna be the same.
BeaverOnFire
GoatsAndGlory
Hard work requires hard work
Cutwail
It was Joe Mama sextape, very valuable to me.
Dolenmorgul
Just get some new porn allready, jeez
creamcheezus
If it's all the nudes from exes over the years it's worth it.
ROGUEdenied
HEY, DO NOT JUDGE! sometimes...
ballsoutflyer
Anything to keep his stepsister happy.
Rockafella83
Zed152
Your collection fits in 16 gigs?
keyblader1985
I've noticed a couple of my old favorites are nowhere to be found online anymore. This is why I've always advocated downloading.
ROGUEdenied
the F.B.I. is watching. Oh! and SATAN
CloudStrife668
Or nudes collection but one sees your point.
DontNeedAWeatherManToKnowWhichWayTheWindBlows
Was thinking the same thing.. gotta be something worth all that time and effort.
nobodyspecial995
File manager said "JPEG JPEG....."
tctallon
Evidence is probably worth the effort.
ArchMagos
Back door slots 9?
WeatherWiz
It’s actually their corn collection
amp99
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
FetaForMoses
*pollection
alcamar
decarnatedame
Lovely pattern on that Corelle plate.
WeatherWiz
A corn bender?
lonelyrangerofthedreams
That’s a unic-corn
THESHADOWOFJECT
the harvest was bountiful. couldn't afford the loss
kmikl
KORN... FFS, ADIDAS was a thing!
Jordan7831
Hey. Sometimes those photos or videos are no longer available and are considered lost media. We lost so much during the purges a few years ago. So much home made as well as professional quality too.
Markuspsyches
Which purge, I can think of a few.
Jordan7831
The hamster lost so many pictures. The hub lost so many videos.
Maclarion
Some people get real funny about these sorts of questions, since the routine corporate explanation for the purge was to eliminate cp.
ogbobiop2718
SedatedSl0th
I just had a 256gb micro sd corrupt. Lost almost all of our weddings pictures and video. Card was spanking new. Didn’t survive the flight home. :/ What do.
Xynrae
The old stuff was better though