April
30, 2021

The Most Recent Software Versions of the PC-3000 Portable/Express/UDMA/SAS, Data Extractor/Data Extractor RAID Edition, PC-3000 SSD/PC-3000 SSD Extended are Released!

The ACE Lab Online TechCon on Data Recovery & Digital Forensics 2021 revealed a huge number of the most up-to-date features for your PC-3000 tools: support of the new drives families and controllers, T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives, a new class of additional maps, and many others functions that make your data recovery job easier and faster.

Hurry up to download the latest version of the English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean software:


  • PC-3000 Portable II-III/Express/UDMA-E software Ver. 6.9.7
  • PC-3000 SAS software Ver. 6.9.7
  • Data Extractor / Data Extractor RAID Edition software Ver. 5.12.3
  • PC-3000 SSD/SSD Extended software Ver. 2.10.1

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A SHORT LIST OF THE MAIN ENHANCEMENTS

PC-3000 Portable, Express, UDMA

WD Marvell

 ADDED  support for the new families: Gianth15, SpyGlass2, Venice, VeniceR, Carmel, ApolloCR
 ADDED  T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives with a second-level translator
 ENHANCED  heads map building and reading via the Utility mode for SMR drives with a second-level translator
 ADDED  data view from the second-level translator and SMR zones in the "View and edit HDD resources" option
 ADDED  plugins to view the 190 module

Seagate F3

 ADDED  the ability to remove the selected extent from the chain in the "MCMT \ Extent edit" plugin

PC-3000 Portable III

 ADDED  the recovery mode for the device's internal firmware. If the main part of the code was updated incorrectly, you can update the firmware in recovery mode, which starts automatically
 ADDED  support for the Apple PCIe SSD from iMac 27 5K 2014 (class code 018002)

Data Extractor

 ADDED  a new class of additional maps (attributes) defined and filled with the launching "side" (utility, file system, process, etc.). At the moment, the following maps of this type have been implemented:

  • an occupied / unoccupied map
  • a head map
  • a file system validation map
  • a RAID members map
 ENHANCED  Reading of the decrypted FileVault sectors

ZFS file system

 ENHANCED  support for a new type of metadata

Data Extractor RAID Edition

 ENHANCED  the "RAID members report" mode
 ADDED  the RAID member statistics autodetection block

PC-3000 SSD

Silicon Motion (SATA)

 ADDED  support for the SM2259XT controller

Phison (SATA): PS3111

 ENHANCED  the algorithm to build the translator

SanDisk Marvell (SATA)

 ADDED  Ultra Plus series

PC-3000 SSD Extended

WD Marvell (NVMe) utilityNEW!

 ADDED  new supported models:

  • WD Black Gen.1 (Controller: Marvell 88ss1093)

Silicon Motion (NVMe)

 ADDED  support for SM2262ENG controller


A DETAILED LIST OF ENHANCEMENTS

PC-3000 Portable, Express, UDMA

WD Marvell

 ADDED  support for the new families: Gianth15, SpyGlass2, Venice, VeniceR, Carmel, ApolloCR
 ADDED  T2 Recovery visual mode for SMR drives with a second-level translator
 ENHANCED  heads map building and reading via the Utility mode for SMR drives with a second-level translator
 ADDED  data view from the second-level translator and SMR zones in the "View and edit HDD resources" option
 ADDED  plugins to view the 190 module
 CHANGED  definition of used SA tracks in the "Reading SA tracks" and "Head test" modes

WD Marvell (USB / COM)

 ENHANCED  implementation of the Techno Protocol for USB drives increasing speed and stability
 ADDED  processing of exchange errors via the COM port for the USB / COM utility

Seagate F3

 ADDED  the ability to remove the selected extent from the chain in the "MCMT \ Extent edit" plugin
 ENHANCED  control over the loss of readiness in the "Loader" downloading function
 ENHANCED  data control in the "Erase CELog in flash" ROM patch

PC-3000 Universal Utility

 ADDED  express diagnostics of the drive and its operation modes, changed the entrance to the Utility
 ADDED  action to handle the "Check error" error that checks the type and status of the command error

PC-3000 Kernel

 ADDED  support for TCG Opal
 ADDED  support for the Device configuration overlay
 ADDED  support for the Error recovery control, visual modes, and software interface
 ENHANCED  a procedure of launching utilities for HDDs with SAS interface for PC-3000 Portable III

PC-3000 Portable III

 ADDED  the recovery mode for the device's internal firmware. If the main part of the code was updated incorrectly, you can update the firmware in recovery mode, which starts automatically

Please note that any attempt to downgrade the firmware to the previous versions will lead to the launch of the recovery mode once you reboot your device
 ENHANCED  the operation of the ADC-DMA linking in the power management controller
 ADDED  support for the Apple PCIe SSD from iMac 27 5K 2014 (class code 018002)
 ADDED  the "About" item to the settings menu of the Standalone modeю This item displays the product name, device version, and firmware build time

Data Extractor

 ADDED  a button to manage additional maps from all main forms:

  • switch between maps
  • connect / disconnect maps
  • delete maps
  • enable / disable background filling for maps that are filled during data reading
  • fill in the maps which are filled during data reading
 ADDED  a new class of additional maps (attributes) defined and filled with the launching "side" (utility, file system, process, etc.). At the moment, the following maps of this type have been implemented:

  • an occupied / unoccupied map (not as a list of chains, but as a full-fledged attribute map). To create and fill in this map you need to execute the method appropriate for the file system (or disk). For example, you can create a snapshot with the legend to understand which of the files found during the analysis are partially or completely overwritten with a "fresh" file system
  • a head map that allows you to apply the entire existing set of tool to it thanks to the visualization function
  • a file system validation map that is created and filled when the corresponding file system method is run. You can use it to check the condition or quality of the build (FLASH, RAID, translator, or disk based on the map). Besides, this map allows you to sort the files as good, conditionally good, and bad, along with the feature to create snapshots with a legend
  • a RAID members map which is built for RAID when you run the corresponding method in the explorer. Together with the map to check the validity of the file system, this map allows you to easily identify irrelevant RAID members
 ADDED  a method to create the table statistics for one map based on the other one. For example, the "Map statistics of file system integrity based on RAID members” allows to easily and visually identify irrelevant RAID members
 ADDED  the ability to make a copy in files of segmented storage (Forensic) during the DE task creation (when selecting destination storage). In this case, the copy is created for the entire disk, information about corrupted sectors is stored in metadata. When you start copying, you can specify the percentage or number of bad sectors above which the data cloning will be stopped. In this case, the software asks you for permission to prevent or complete the cloning
 ADDED  a mode to modify maps (the chain list): splitting to equal blocks, rounding to cluster size, partitioning
 ADDED  the ability to specify the list of extensions excluded from search results in the RAW recovery mode
 ADDED  WD drives decryption on the fly during reading in the utility which set a "decrypt" parameter and the certain key
 ENHANCED  the algorithm to calculate entropy at limiting values (0 and 1)
 ENHANCED  the algorithm to export data to devices connected to the USB port of the PC-3000 Portable III
 ENHANCED  search for position patterns in the GREP searchNEW! – the speed increased by 2 times
 ENHANCED  Reading of the decrypted FileVault sectors

NTFS file system

 ADDED  ability to run $LogFile analysis in the background and in the execute queue

ZFS file system

 ENHANCED  support for a new type of metadata
 ENHANCED  saving of files compressed with the gzip algorithm

APFS File system

 ENHANCED  encrypted files saving from the scan results option

Data Extractor RAID Edition

 ENHANCED  the "RAID members report" mode
 ADDED  the RAID member statistics autodetection block
 ENHANCED  sectors integrity checking

PC-3000 SAS

USB Tester (SCSI) universal utility

 ENHANCED  interface
 ADDED  express test of a drive state for USB drives
 ADDED  SCSI ATA Translation interface support

PC-3000 SSD

Silicon Motion (SATA)

 ADDED  support for the SM2259XT controller:

  • KingSpec P3
  • Silicon Power S55
  • Others based on the SM2259XT controller
 ENHANCED  algorithms to build a translator for drives based on the SM2258XT controller with 2 LUNs per chip
 ENHANCED  the unification of the translation algorithms for most of the supported families

Phison (SATA): PS3111

 ENHANCED  the algorithm to build the translator
 ADDED  SBFSD010 loader

SanDisk Marvell (SATA)

 ENHANCED  the physical address calculation function for Ultra II series SSDs
 ADDED  Ultra Plus series

PC-3000 SSD Extended

Silicon Motion (SATA)

 ADDED  support for the SM2259XT controller:

  • KingSpec P3
  • Silicon Power S55
  • Others based on the SM2259XT controller
 ENHANCED  algorithms to build a translator for drives based on the SM2258XT controller with 2 LUNs per chip
 ENHANCED  the unification of the translation algorithms for most of the supported families

Phison (SATA): PS3111

 ENHANCED  the algorithm to build the translator
 ADDED  SBFSD010 loader

SanDisk Marvell (SATA)

 ENHANCED  the physical address calculation function for Ultra II series SSDs
 ADDED  Ultra Plus series

WD Marvell (NVMe) utilityNEW!

 ENHANCED  operating mode (loading service firmware/microcode)
 ADDED  building a translator and working with the drive image via Data Extractor
 ADDED  read / write SPI flash chip
 ADDED  reading service modules
 ADDED  resource reservation
 ADDED  new supported models:

  • WD Black Gen.1 (Controller: Marvell 88ss1093)

Plextor Marvel (NVMe)

 ADDED  ROM writing
 ADDED  a new function to upload the Loader via NVMe protocol in the Extended Mode wizard

Silicon Motion (NVMe)

 ADDED  support for SM2262ENG controller:

  • ADATA XPG SX8200
  • ADATA XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro
  • Transcend MTE220S
  • HP EX920
  • Other SSDs based on the SM2262EN controller

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