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- ACE Lab · Storage and hardwarePC-3000 SSDPC-3000 SSD is the solid state drive module of the PC-3000 family. It runs on ACE Lab's hardware and gives the examiner access to the drive's technological mode, where the controller can be made to reveal user data it will no longer serve through the normal interface.
- Exterro · Computer forensicsExterro FTK Forensic ToolkitFTK is the Forensic Toolkit that AccessData built and Exterro has owned since late 2020. Today Exterro sells it as Exterro FTK in a standalone form and as FTK Central for teams, with FTK Imager alongside.
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- Explainer · Storage and recoverySSDs, TRIM and What Happens to Deleted DataOn a hard disk a deleted file usually sits where it was until something overwrites it. On an SSD the drive itself may clear it within minutes. This explainer covers TRIM, garbage collection and wear levelling, what a forensic image of an SSD really contains and why file carving so often comes back empty.
- Standards update · Data sanitizationWhat NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 ChangedNIST published the final NIST SP 800-88 Rev. 2 in September 2025 and withdrew the 2014 revision. The new edition drops the media-by-media technique tables and asks organisations to run a sanitization programme instead. Here is what moved, what stayed and what it means for disposing of IT assets in India.