【 USB Drive Data Recovery Cost 】

1. Storage Size

The housing space for the memory chip has not changed much over the years.

The chip's physical size does not change based on storage size

Therefore, higher storage size means higher data density.

Basically, higher storage size means there is less space to write the data itself, so the density is much higher.

The quality of the chip is crucial when it comes to writing data in small space without any errors.

However, it is generally harder to match the quality of the chip with higher storage size.

The difficulty suddenly increases when the size is past 16GB. The more storage size, the harder it is to recover data.

2. Memory Chip Maker and Model

The higher quality chips have a higher chance to fully recover data, while lower quality chips tend to have missing or corrupt data after recovery. Generally, major brands like SONY and TOSHIBA have higher quality chips.
Cheap foreign or novelty USB drives tend to use lower quality chips.

3. Separation of Controller and Memory Chips

There are USB drives that separate the controller and the momory chips, and ones that are combined together. The one separated is much easier to recover data from.

4. Memory Chip Type

There are different ways such as TSOP, BGA, and COB to save data.
TSOP is cheap, while BGA and COB is more difficult to recover, increasing its price.

Conclusion

・Data Recovery Price Increases: USB storage size is high or uses low quality chips (non-brand products).
・Data Recovery Price Decreases: USB storage size is small or uses high quality chips (Japanese brand products).