Which is the best recovery software for SSD data loss?

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Which is the best recovery software for SSD data loss?

Sandisk Extreme 4TB doesn't mount on Mac OS 10.8 on early 2013 Macbook Pro, MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 .

SSD was partitioned and formatted in APFS.

Now looking into recovery softwares but not sure which one to choose? Mainly pictures and video files including lifetime work in raw, nef and crw.

Disk Drill or EasyUS ? As in reviews I learned that EasyUS seems better for recovering video files?

Final cut pro production files are very large...

Any idea how long verifying 4TB files would take? I guess 1 month will not be enough...

Necessity to buy with lifetime upgrades?

Is there software that can sort corrupted files without having to browse/verify every single one individually?

What to do to restore recovered final cut pro files to continue editing my latest versions?

My final cut pro production files contain primarily .nef, crw, jpg, mp3 and mp4.

When retrieved but the linked files on the timeline seem corrupted, what to do next to restore originals and missing parts on broken timelines?

Thank you all for your help! My husband is desperate...

Earlier Mac models

Posted on Nov 30, 2024 10:19 AM

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leroydouglas

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Nov 30, 2024 10:38 AM in response to amamac

amamac wrote:

Sandisk Extreme 4TB doesn't mount on Mac OS 10.8 on early 2013 Macbook Pro, MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 .

SSD was partitioned and formatted in APFS.

OS X 10.8....(?)

Apple File System (APFS) drive format system introduced in macOS High Sierra (10.13) in 2017.

Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

consumer Data Recovery Programs

* https://www.prosofteng.com Try the "consumer grade" DataRescue6 https://www.prosofteng.com/mac-data-recovery/

https://www.prosofteng.com/

https://iboysoft.com

https://www.cleverfiles.com Data Recovery – Disk Drill

Data Recovery

ref: https://www.it-tech.com.au/recover-data-on-mac-computers/

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Nov 30, 2024 1:29 PM in response to amamac

If a basic scan from a data recovery app is unable to locate the items, then you are in for a world of hurt if you must perform a deep scan since a deep scan will be searching for data outside of the file system so you won't have any file or folder names associated with the recovered data. You will only have file types or data types. The data you want will be mixed in with temporary copies, cached copies, and even random files from created from every app and even macOS. You will be sifting through a million files to try to locate your important data.

Plus any Libraries or Projects will need to be manually recreated if a deep scan is necessary.

I know this because I had to recover data for a co-worker who accidentally deleted all their video projects. The co-worker gave up trying to find & piece together their video projects from all the files I had recovered for him.

This will be an expensive lesson to learn about having frequent and regular backups of your computer and all external media (including the cloud). There are a lot more new ways to permanently lose access to the data stored on the internal SSD of the recent Macs due to all the hardware, software, and security changes. Apple provides the Time Machine backup software with macOS to make it extremely easy for people to have backups.

FYI, some of the SanDisk Extreme SSDs are known to have a critical firmware issue where the data is lost. Western Digital/SanDisk never mentioned the data loss issue when posting the firmware update (WD is not a company to be trusted for multiple reasons). Check to see if your SSD has any firmware updates available.

You may want to see if your SanDisk SSD has a firmware update available here:

https://support-en.wd.com/app/firmwareupdate

SanDisk Extreme Pro v2 SSDs have a known issue which can result in data loss (the above link neglects to mention that particular issue).

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds-are-still-wiping-data-after-firmware-fix-users-say/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sandisk-extreme-ssds-are-worthless-multiple-lawsuits-against-wd-say/

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amamac Author

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Nov 30, 2024 10:49 AM in response to leroydouglas

Oops sorry, not OS X 10.8 but Mojave

Because Mojave was the latest system version facilitating the use of Aperture, therefor I could no longer upgrade the system version.

Will check on your links provided, thanks

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amamac Author

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Dec 2, 2024 3:50 AM in response to HWTech

Hi, thank you for your reply.

I checked all links, our model is a SDSSDE61-1T00 which doesn't figure in the list of the drives that should have a problem...

So no firmware update for our disk...

The link on which to check it even said 'The Serial Number you have entered is incorrect, please verify and try again'! I double checked the S/N and it is correct!

It doesn't seem all too good...

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amamac Author

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Dec 2, 2024 8:41 AM in response to amamac

Sorry... please ignore my earlier reply as I used the wrong S/N before...

I tried with the correct S/N and the answer is 'Your product may have been impacted.

We recommend that you update the firmware to ensure continued optimal performance. To do this, follow the guided firmware installation instructions'.

But...

Installing firmware may to no degree impact the potential recovery of the files that could be read out by e.g. Recoverit Wondershare.

That scan has already performed resulting in tens of thousands of files being recognised so far but we have not yet given the command to do a recovery as such as it was a free version (the scan took over 3 days) and will need to be performed again on a paid version in order to be able to recover also.

We haven't decided yet about the recovery software, hence my initial question about which one to buy, as we are not sure which one would be best for this old Mojave that we have.

We are willing to update the firmware of the Sandisk but we cannot upgrade the operating system no matter what, as upgrading the OS further than Mojave will result in not being able to use Aperture any longer. The current corrupted Sandisk SSD contains Aperture library files that are vital to the Final Cut Pro files also present on the same disk.

Consequently we prefer to maintain the status of the Macbook Pro as it was before the crash of the Sandisk SSD as that proved to be the only configuration guaranteeing the Final Cut Pro production files to respond properly for further editing.

Having to relate on either the automated back up files of Final Cut Pro or the initial original files is a topic to be focused on in the aftermath of the initial potential recovery of the files or the Sandisk mounting again the way it is supposed to be after installing the update of the firmware of the device.

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amamac Author

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Dec 2, 2024 8:55 AM in response to leroydouglas

Meanwhile I checked the links of HWTech above and got from Sandisk itself confirmed that the batch might have a problem.

A primary recovery scan performed previous to my initial post here proved potential success but we are not sure if it would be better to update the Sandisk firmware first or only after the recovery of the files?

Would a recovery result in deletion of the files on the Sandisk while transferring them to another disk or would it result in a duplicate?

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Answer 7

Dec 2, 2024 9:36 AM in response to amamac

Personally I would play it safe & get a copy of everything now while you still can since you never know what will happen with the firmware update. Even when everything is working correctly, firmware updates always have a slight risk of something going wrong & data loss.

If the recovery scan is from a simple scan where it will include the folder & file names & paths, then definitely get a copy if they are that important. If only a deep scan is finding the data without any file/folder names, then I seriously doubt you are going to take the time to rebuild the data, but at least you are assured you may have the data.

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