Every badge, and the silicon behind it
SSD manufacturers we recover. The name on the label is where we start, not where we finish.
There are only a handful of companies that make flash, and not many more that make the controllers that run it. Samsung, SK hynix, Micron, Kioxia, SanDisk and YMTC make the NAND. Phison, Silicon Motion, Maxio, InnoGrit, Realtek, Marvell and the big makers' own design teams make most of the controllers. Every other name on this page is a badge on a combination of the two. That matters, because a Kingston, a Patriot and a Silicon Power with the same Phison controller fail the same way and are recovered the same way. Find your brand below. Whichever it is, one SSD is £300 + VAT after the free look, the figure in writing before any chargeable work, and on most jobs no data means no bill.
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Which badge hides which controller.
A to Z, every brand with a page.
Not on the list? Tell us the badge →Why we say the controller matters more than the brand.
When an SSD fails it is nearly always the controller or its firmware that has stopped, not the flash. The route back in is through that controller: its diagnostic state, its way of laying out the service area, the order it wrote pages across the dies, the scrambling it applied. All of that is decided by the controller family, and none of it by the badge on the case. A Phison S11 in a Kingston is the same Phison S11 in a Patriot.
So the pages here are organised by brand because that is what you know, and written around the controller because that is what the bench needs. Each one lists the models we see, the controllers commonly reported in them, the failures that have been documented for that brand and, where nothing specific has been documented, the general pattern that controller family follows, said plainly as a pattern rather than dressed up as a fact.
One more thing the controller tells us: whether the drive encrypts in hardware. Samsung, WD, SanDisk, SK hynix, Kioxia, Micron's own lines and Apple all do, which means a dead controller cannot be worked around by reading the flash directly, and has to be revived instead. That decides the route before the parcel is open, and it is why the model number on the form saves a day.
The questions that come up first.
My brand is not listed. Can you still recover it?
Yes. If it has a controller and flash it is on this list in every way that matters. Tell us the badge and the model on the form; the free look identifies the controller.
Does the brand change the price?
No. One drive is £300 + VAT after the free look whatever the badge. Sets start at £500 + VAT and enterprise storage at £1,250 + VAT.
Why do you say a documented issue is a pattern?
Because we only state as fact what has been published by the maker or reported by the technical press. Where a brand has no documented event and we see a general controller pattern, we say so plainly.
Is a cheap drive worth recovering?
The value is in the files, not the drive, and the look is free either way.
Not on the list?
Tell us the badge and the model. If it has a controller and flash, it is on the list in every way that matters, and the first look is free.