More money from Hard Drives - Data recovery boards

Originally Posted by Jeremiah

I believe this is incorrect. Most hard-drive PCBs have between 2mb-16mb of memory stored in a cashe. 2mb is nothing in terms of pictures, vid, etc, but is plenty of space for documents containing SSN, credit cards, etc. If what i said is correct, than information could be accessed via the pcb. I always drill a hole in them before recycling. Here is a link that may help What Is a Cache on a Hard Drive? | eHow.com

Trying to recover data from a HD buffer would equal trying to remove information from a stick of RAM. Both are emptied with each power down. This is why in a system crash everything you'd been writing is lost, due to it having been stored in RAM (either on the main boards RAM or the HDs RAM makes no difference), it's gone.