The paragraph about reading from flash chips directly reminded me of <a href="http://www.flash-extractor.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flash-extractor.com/</a> which is mostly for USB drives, but claims to work on some SSDs too. The forums there are full of posts with rather cryptic terminology about the on-chip layouts used by various controllers.<p>...and is it just me or do the majority of information and sites on data recovery seem to be from Russia?
I wonder if there is an opportunity for the sellers of these SSDs to use privacy as a USP. "With this SSD, once you delete data it is gone and not even the NSA can find it again"