A UNIQUE TOOL TO GET EVIDENCE FROM DAMAGED STORAGE MEDIA
The PC-3000 Portable III Ultimate System is a hardware-software solution to recover digital evidence from logically and/or physically damaged SATA/PATA/USB hard disk drives, SATA/M.2 PCIe NVMe solid state drives, and RAID. Additionally you can bypass the password protection when needed. The tool is primarily intended for digital forensics experts and has many useful forensic features.
TAILORED FOR FORENSICS DATA RECOVERY IN THE FIELD
Use the PC-3000 Portable both with a desktop computer in your lab and a laptop or in a Standalone Mode at the crime scene. With 2 active licenses, you are able to arrange your workstation wherever you need it!
4 DIAGNOSTIC PORTS TO RECOVER EVIDENCE FROM 3 DRIVES AT THE SAME TIME
Connect your storage media directly via the PC-3000 Portable III source ports: USB, SATA, PATA, PCIe, NVMe.
TARGET SATA1 AND SATA2 PORTS FOR DATA IMAGING TO DESTINATION DRIVES
In certain modes, you may also use them to increase to 3 the number of devices you deal with simultaneously. Max speed of SATA ports: up to 360 MB/s.
HARDWARE WRITE PROTECTION TO ENSURE EVIDENCE INTEGRITY
A special switch on the device blocks any alteration of data during the extraction or imaging with the source SATA0 and USB ports. When it’s turned on, a yellow LED lights up and indicates that the record block is activated.
LOGGING AND REPORTS GENERATION
View, save and print reports about the condition of drives you examine for further investigation. The detailed information in the report can help you to better understand the internal hardware status of the drive you deal with.
Included in the delivery of the SSD and Ultimate kits
BREAKTHROUGH: M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD SUPPORT!
The world’s only solution to deal with damaged NVMe SSDs! Recover evidence when no one can: diagnose the condition of NVMe SSDs and extract data from such damaged devices thanks to a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit.
FASTER AND EASIER WORK WITH USB HDD/SSD/FLASH DRIVES
Save time during evidence recovery from partially damaged USB HDDs and SSDs. In most cases, you do not need to search for a donor PCB or solder the SATA interface since the OS doesn’t influence a drive, the reading of the drive with many bad sectors and freezes is stable, and the tech commands are fully supported via the USB interface.
Brand-new Standalone Mode
Сreate data images from USB Flash, SATA/ PATA/USB HDD, NVMe/ SATA/ USB SSD without a host computer. Drive diagnostics, creation of the sector-by-sector copies, erasing (cleaning) of the drives are available. More features are going to be added with the software updates.
Easy Mode for Digital Forensics
Forensics data recovery is easier than you might think! The Easy Mode covers almost all of your daily cases with logically damaged HDDs: checks the drive’s condition, saves the report about it, reads the drive ID and S.M.A.R.T. parameters, removes passwords from security-locked drives, views/copies data, and much more!
High-end Full-Featured Mode
Get maximum evidence from damaged storage devices by yourself or with the help of our Technical Support Engineers no matter how difficult your case is! The mode includes top features that you may already know from the other PC-3000 flagship solutions: PC-3000 Express and PC-3000 UDMA. No other tool can recover data like PC-3000 does!
Technical Features
Form factor: External device (153,50х84х46,5 mm)
Interface type: USB3.0
Diagnostic ports: USB 3.0 (Host), Port 0 (PCIe / SATA), Port 1 (SATA), Port 2 (SATA)
Power adapter: 4-channel independent power adapter with protection from overvoltage and current overloading, with current and voltage measurements
Number of active licenses: 2 (to install the software on both a desktop computer and a laptop)
Power Supply: External AC / DC 19 V
Operating temperature range: 0-40°C thanks to the Climate Control System
Other: Non-Volatile Memory to keep log files with date, time (GMT), username and settings which can be used in the reports later on.
The built-in lithium power supply ensures uninterrupted operation of the century-old calendar and world clock (UTC).
System Requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5 (4 cores, 4 threats) or AMD Ryzen 5
- RAM: 8 Gb
- 60 Gb of available disk space (for installation of software and HDD/SSD resources)
- USB 3.0 Type-A port for connection of PC-3000 Portable (an Intel xHCI HOST controller is recommended)
- USB 3.0 Type-A or USB 2.0 port for PC-USB-TERMINAL connection
- Operating system: Windows 7 (SP), 8, 10, x86, x64
- Widescreen Full HD 1920×1080 display
PLEASE NOTE: if your PC or laptop is based on the Windows 10 OS, make sure that the Secure Boot option in UEFI (BIOS) is turned off.
SUPPORTED DEVICES AND FILE SYSTEMS:
HDD (3.5″, 2.5″, 1.8″)
| Supported interfaces: | SATA (Serial ATA) and USB devices compliant with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e. external USB 2.0/3.0 HDD and USB Flash drives with logical issues (File System corruption, deleted data).
SSHD (Solid State Hybrid Drive). PATA (IDE) – via a special PC SATA-PATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally. |
| Supported vendors: | Seagate, Western Digital, TOSHIBA, HITACHI / IBM (HGST), Samsung, Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum |
| Supported capacities: | From 40 GB and more (without upper limit) |
SSD
| Supported interfaces: | SATA II/III
M.2 PCIe NVMe and M.2 (NGFF) – via a special universal M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD/M.2 SATA SSD adapter included in the delivery kit mSATA — via a special SATA-mSATA adapter from ACE Lab which can be bought optionally Micro SATA, PATA, LIF, ZIF, Apple proprietary interface – via additional adapters from third-party vendors |
| Supported vendors: | OCZ, Corsair, Crucial, RunCore, A-DATA, G.Skill, Micron, Plextor, Intel, Samsung, Seagate, SanDisk, Kingston, Smartbuy, Silicon Power, PNY, AMD, Lexar, Transcend, Patriot, GoodRam, Kingspec, Toshiba, etc. More manufacturers are added with the updates |
| Supported capacities: | From 32 GB and more (without upper limit) |
USB Flash
| Supported interfaces: | USB devices that comply with the Mass Storage Device specification, i.e., external USB 2.0 / 3.0 Flash. |
| Supported vendors: | A-DATA, Apacer, Corsair, Goodram, Kingston, Lexar, Samsung, Sandisk, Silicon Power, Smartbuy, Toshiba, Transcend, Verbatim and others |
| Supported capacities: | From 256 MB and more (without upper limit) |
RAID
| Supported virtual RAID levels: |
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File Systems
| Supported virtual RAID levels: | FAT, exFAT, NTFS, HFS+, APFS, EXT2/3/4, XFS, ReiserFS, BtrFS, VMFS, UFS1/2, ZFS, DHF4.1, WFS0.x (for video recorders) and virtual machine images |
PC-3000 Portable Ultimate System
Forensics data recovery from SATA/PATA/USB HDD & SSD & RAID
(HDD + USB devices + RAID + SSD data recovery)
A must-have tool for everyday forensics data recovery thanks to the mobility, the support of the largest number of storage media along with Standalone, Easy and Full-Featured Modes and the highest efficiency.
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-ULT-SYS
PC-3000 Portable System
(HDD + USB devices data recovery)
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-SYS
PC-3000 Portable SSD System
(HDD + USB devices + SSD data recovery)
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-SSD-SYS
PC-3000 Portable RAID System
(HDD + USB devices + RAID data recovery)
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-RAID-SYS
SAS adapter
This option contains the SAS adapter and the universal utility. With the SAS adapter you will be able to deal with logically damaged SAS HDD and SAS SSD.
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-SAS
SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities Kit
This option contains the SAS adapter with the universal utility + special software utilities. So, if you wish to deal with physically damaged SAS HDD too, you need to get the SAS Adapter with Special Software Utilities.
Part No:
AP-PC3-PORT-SAS+SSU
Please note: the SAS Adapter can be connected only to Port 0 of the PC-3000 Portable III. Port 1 and Port 2 can work with SATA-based drives and do not support the SAS adapter. You can view the full list of SAS drives here.