DriveSavers Data Recovery

This is Julian Lucas during his January visit, captured during one of the moments described in his The New Yorker article.

One of his stops in our lab was the Flash Physical Department, where data recovery engineers perform chip-level microsoldering on every kind of flash media we recover: smartphones, SSDs, embedded SSDs, USB flash drives, camera cards, and more. Julian sat down at a workstation and tried it himself: heating the solder balls, removing a chip, fitting a replacement. He accidentally fused a few resistors in the process, but the data would have been salvageable.

A solid first attempt at microsoldering.

Link to our companion article in the comments.