USB Flash Drive Data Recovery

$300 Data Recovery charges $300 to recover a USB flash drive 1TB or smaller, which covers nearly every flash drive made. If the drive needs chip-off recovery, where we remove the NAND chip and read it directly, the price is $500 per chip. There is no charge if we can’t recover your data.

We Can Recover USB Flash Drives with the Following Problems:

Bricked drive
Dead drive
Firmware corruption
Partition corruption
Format recovery
Deleted files
Logical failure
Drive shows incorrect size
Wrong model number in BIOS
Broken or bent USB connector
Water damage
Snapped in half
…and many more

 

“Brian and his team performed a miracle and [recovered] 100% of all the pictures on the damaged flash drive.” –Mike

We use the best-in-class “chip-off” tools for USB flash drive data recovery!

This includes Ace Lab’s PC-3000 Flash, Rusolut’s VNR, and Flash Extractor.

PC-3000 Flash SSD data recovery tool

How much does USB flash drive data recovery cost?

STANDARD RECOVERY
$300
Drives 1TB or smaller. Broken connectors, bad fuses, lifted pads, controller faults.
CHIP-OFF RECOVERY
$500
Per NAND chip. When the drive can’t be read any other way. Most flash drives have one chip.

In plain terms: a USB flash drive 1TB or smaller is $300 at $300 Data Recovery. Almost every consumer flash drive falls in that tier. Larger drives follow the same capacity tiers as hard drives: $500 from 1TB to 6TB, and $700 above 6TB.

Chip-off is a different workflow, not a surcharge. We only use it when the drive can’t be read through its own controller. Most flash drives contain a single NAND chip, so a chip-off recovery is usually $500 rather than a multiple of it. We tell you before we go that route.

Flash drives don’t use donor drives. Prices don’t include shipping or a Transfer Drive.

For any flash drive that DOESN’T require “chip-off” recovery, the cost is $300 (assuming it’s 1TB or smaller, otherwise, the cost is $500).

For any flash drive that REQUIRES  “chip-off” recovery, we charge $500 per NAND chip. Around 80% of USB Flash Drives have one NAND chip (the remaining 20% have two).

Not sure whether your flash drive is recoverable? Submit our Chances Form and we’ll give you an honest read on your odds and a firm price before you send anything.

More on recovery costs and policy: Is everything really $300? · Do I pay anything if you can’t recover my data? · Do I have to buy a transfer drive from you? · Why did another company quote me thousands? · What’s the cost to recover a USB Flash Drive?

There are three main failures with USB Flash Drives:

1. Broken or bad USB connector/interface
One of the most common issues with USB Flash Drives is a broken USB port. In this case, our favorite recovery technique is soldering the wires from a USB cable to points on the flash drive’s PCB. We have the experience required even in cases where the USB pads on the PCB are lifted or completely missing. Then the device is fully imaged, scanned, and the data is recovered.

2. Bad fuse or other chip on PCB
We have the knowledge to identify bad components on the device’s PCB and replace or bypass them so we can image the drive.

3. Failed/corrupt controller
We can remove the flash chips and perform chip-off data recovery by reading the chips and reconstructing the controller’s algorithms.

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Is your data recoverable?

Click below to submit our Chances Form and find out the likelihood of data recovery, along with a price quote.