Monolith Data Recovery Rates
A “monolith” device is a single chip that contains the NAND (data) and controller (operating system). We charge $300 for all Monolith devices (the same as for all MicroSDs) if we recover 99% or more data. If less than 99% was recovered, and you don’t want the data we recovered, there is a $100 labor fee. If the recovery is not successful, there is no charge.
In the right column, you can see an eMMC chip recovery from a Lenovo Ideapad 130S. In this case, the computer was damaged by a drop. We had to use a BGA rework station to carefully remove the tiny eMMC chip that contains the customer’s data. Then, we used a tool called “Z3X EasyJtag” to read the chip and additional software to extract the customer’s data.