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PC-3000 SSD Systems. The List of Supported SSDs (regularly updated, ver. 3.4.12)

Hello friends! The ACE Lab developers constantly research drives, which results in a rapid expansion of the Support List for most of the modern SSDs. So with the PC-3000 Systems that support Solid State Drives, you will always be on … Continue reading

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PC-3000 SSD. How to choose the correct loader for SM2258XT/SM2259XT/XT2

Hello everyone! ACE Lab Technical Support department gets a lot of requests from your side about modern Solid State Drives based on such popular SMI controllers as SM2258XT, SM2259XT, SM2259XT2. All these controllers are fully supported in PC-3000 UDMA, Express … Continue reading

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PC-3000 Flash 8.2.x – adding unsupported chip ID into the software

Hey guys! ACE Lab engineers regularly add new NAND memory chips into the PC-3000 Flash software database. Updates with the new XORs, NAND ID’s, ECC and dynamic XORs appears in Flash weekly. If our customer faced with the unsupported XOR … Continue reading

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Digital Forensics: PC-3000 SSD – how to bypass the TRIM

Hey there! In this article we are going to speak about the TRIM command which appears in the beginning of SSD era (around 14 years ago) and become a native feature in all existing Solid State Drives. So, what is … Continue reading

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PC-3000. Best PC configuration for ACE Lab products in 2024

Recently, users have been asking about the most comfortable hardware configuration for using PC-3000 Flash, PC-3000 Express or PC-3000 UDMA-E. A lot of engineers are still working on computers with Core i5 2400 and 4GB of RAM, but this configuration is outdated … Continue reading

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PC-3000 SSD Extended. Ramaxel and Lenovo Utility

Hello friends! If you’re familiar with SSD data recovery, you should have already faced different types of controllers and know that Marvell-based drives are one of the most complex to work with. The main thing is that every single manufacturer … Continue reading

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How to use PC-3000 Portable III incorrectly and lose your warranty

The ports of PC-3000 Portable III (Port 0, 1, 2) function using high-speed PCIe-1, 2 and SATA-1, 2, 3 protocols thus providing for the data transfer rates up to 5 and 6 Gbit/s respectively, i.e. effectively the data transfer rate … Continue reading

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PC-3000 SAS. List of supported hard drives

        PC-3000 SAS can work with SAS and SCSI drives (requires an additional third-party SCSI adapter). PC-3000 Portable III with SAS Adapter and Utilities is able to work only with native SAS drives and does not support … Continue reading

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PC-3000 HDD. List of supported HDD families (7.3.x)

 

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PC-3000 for HDD. How to unlock SED on WD SMR drives without a special board

Hello dear friends, In June 2022, we released a new PC-3000 software version 7.1.x,  and one of the main features in this update is the SED unlocking option for new WD SMR families. It means that now you don’t need to … Continue reading

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