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hey guys Austin and today I'm in an incredibly stylish suit for one reason I'm about to go into this cleanroom to take a look to see how Dr savers is able to save everything from a hard drive to an SSD to importantly 4 we're going to be doing today how to save the data on your smartphone so probably savers sponsor this out to take a look at their entire facility including this two million dollar cleanroom so I'm all suited up I'm afraid of about to destroy everything but that's so inside the cleanroom what we're going to be able to do is look at a wide variety of different ways of saving the data on a hard drive so you can see they have these systems set up all along the wall with the power supplies and have various different connectors but essentially the main goal is to figure out once you get the hard drive what's the problem and how to fix it so the ideal goal is to be able to just copy all the data over and clone it to another drive so sometimes that actually is going to be possible drive savers has a variety of different tools and different pieces of software to do that kind of stuff but as you'd imagine it's not always going to be that simple sometimes though you actually have to get a little bit more creative so we actually have tools that will be able to not only be able to reflash the firmware on a drive so sometimes that'll be enough to save it and sometimes you actually have to do surgeries you're actually going to have to open up the drive swap out different pieces in fact actually I think you're opening a drive right now yes what's the deal with this one it's a clicking hard drive that's never a good sign so this is something that you're going to have to do some surgery on the drive to be able to save it you're gonna need a donor drive gacha gacha it's funny I deal with a lot of PC stuff but I never actually see open up hard drives because you really do need something like a cleanroom like this to be able to actually access them couple specks of dust will absolutely kill something like that so once you get the drive up and running and you have all the hardware sorted the firmware sorted the next step is to actually clone it all off as you can imagine with some drives it can take quite a while anything from 30 minutes up to a couple weeks depending on how badly the drive is damaged and how much data you actually have to copy this is so cool there's so much interesting tech here to be able to say drives from all kinds of sizes all different kinds of types but that's only part of what drive savers do they also work on phones SSDs memory cards USB is they've been bitten by dogs so step out of the cleanroom and we have the drive inventory so you've got some cool stuff here this is a 10 megabyte hard drive it is it is we purchased this for a recovery for it and they have to equate a proprietary system that was running a robotic arm look at that so what year do you think this is from I'm guessing very late 80s late 80s I look at that you can see the old-school Seagate logo 10 megabytes it's insane that this is 10 megabytes so what you're looking at here are 20,000 hard drives that are valued at about 2 million dollars you're gonna find all kinds of crazy stuff so one of the things that they really have to keep in mind is that you never know what kind of drive is going to come in so sometimes you might have to have a multitude of the exact same model number because maybe there's gonna be slight differences in the firmware or the slight differences in the hardware so once they're done with the drive before it's recycled they want to make sure that there's absolutely no chance that there's going to be any data left on it there's a couple fun tools to do that first of all is the data Eliminator or the degausser which it just sounds really cool this essentially will just basically EMP it right say goodbye to this drive it's about to be degauss alright so just push it in I'm sure when these is not cheap I think I feel I can say that about literally anything in here like everything looks expensive yeah what's that it what that array success will remove media I wasn't paying attention it sounded like a bomb went off so now that's bendy gallows the next step is to physically destroy the drive which we don't have to do but I kind of want to do so we put the drive in here close the door and now I'm gonna hit destroy oh you can see it's just a little you're gonna bend the drive in half oh no no wait oh man this drive has had a rough day has it been a impede but now I'm pretty sure it's safe to say you're gonna get any data off of this these guys I don't think we'll be able to save this one so assuming that you don't crush your drive the next step in the process once you leave the clean room is to come downstairs so each workstation is going to have a whole series of pcs as well as drive bays so for example if I want to just drop a drive in here ah I I knew that I know how to hard drive so at this point they've gotten all the days that they can tan off and it's been cloned into a drive so normally you might think oh yes I just want everything but do you think about it what's on a hard drive is going to be your Windows install but your programs that you're not necessarily going to want so when you first contact drive savers they're gonna ask hey what's on this Drive do you care about photos documents pictures whatever the case is photos and pictures are the same thing I'm gonna keep going so essentially they'll start looking through and say oh look we found all of your wedding photos or whatever the case is make sure that can be prioritized so that you get the stuff that you actually want all right so this is what I've been waiting all day for now of course it's great to be able to recover stuff on hard drives but one of the main things that drive savers also does is recover data off of smartphones so this is my victim a samsung galaxy s6 all right all right all right so I'll see here just with my fingernail okay so get the battery so I don't electrocute myself okay all right so this is getting to be a little bit more manageable so we've got Hernan so this is our NAND right here right so I do see the individual pads here so it doesn't really it's like I can kind of see it so hopefully it's not gonna be too hard to give it like a silicon layer in between so I have well I just realize how many people have gathered around to watch this disaster okay so at this point I've got the phone disconnected or and disassembled and all ready to go it's all lined up I can see in the microscope exactly what I'm doing so next step is to take a heat gun sort of melt the solder and basically just need to get the NAND flash off okay well I got like the first corner up I surprise to just work my way down now right go through oh there we go okay still we're not gonna put it back in the phone right we actually have a special reader for it but we're gonna take off all the silicone there clean that off reball it so that if it's gonna be perfect okay so as it should be a surprise to knowing I am a failure so that's why you send your phone to dry favors not Austen savers so the thing was I got it like what maybe forty percent ready something like that yeah forty percent fixed however forty percent will not get your phone up and running I brought you the hopefully fixed reball NAND flash nice okay this is from an Essex in my crew a galaxy s6 yes I'm legitimately nervous if I ruin this chip or not I think I did but we'll see oh hey alright so you notice that's right off the bat we've got we've got some good signs here is this partition here is going to be our user data partitioning okay coming in at about 30 gigabytes of data the good thing is at this point once everything's dumped the sort of the danger zone is over we're like the chip can go and then light on fire who cares whatever all the data say no matter we can step on it by accident we've got a copy of it so for right now I think it's safe to say that this has been a successful recovery of a phone that I did not break even though I came really close so that is our totally better than Linus's tour of the drive savers facility of course huge chodes drive savers for sponsoring this video if you guys ever have any problems with your data you definitely know who to contact just make sure that you don't ask for Austin