Well I'd say go for an SSD rather than an HDD.

Although SSDs do certainly fail at least they have no moving parts - dropping an HDD onto the floor from a sofa will often cause a mechanical failure, dropping an SSD from the same height should be ok - but please, don't try it 

I can certainly post case studies by all means, at the moment we have a very interesting MetaMask issue we are dealing with for a client, but this isn't BTC related so I'm not sure how relevant this would be to the forum.

Best, Chris

Bernyjb: Yes, of course all you need is the seed phrase, obviously. In this instance the client had lost hers.... that's why we had to get the wallet off the hard drive.

LoyceV: A services board - thank you - I shall take a look and yes, we only charge if we are successful

  Ok, so would you rather people didn't know that it's possible to recover their crypto from broken devices? You'd rather that they lose their crypto?

Well, we've been professionally recovering data from damaged phones and hard drives for 20 years. Why are you so sceptical? I'm just trying to show people that just because their phone is wrecked doesn't mean they've lost their data

Hi Everyone,

First of all I'm new here so apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place. A client of ours introduced me to this board after we were able to successfully recover her lost BTC wallet from an old broken computer hard drive (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5329499.msg58394193#msg58394193)

What we have below is not her case but another one we have at the moment where the client's crypto wallet is stored on his iPhone. As you can see the mainboard is bent which caused significant problems as the CPU was no longer interacting with the rest of the phone.

At first we thought the damage was so severe that the only way to proceed would be a CPU transplant, but fortunately in the end this wasn't necessary and we managed to get the CPU and mainboard talking again and access the phone's data, including the crypto wallet.

Here are some pictures of the damage.





We do work like this all the time from damaged phones and hard drives, so if you're interested I can post more stuff like this for you to see ?

Best, Chris

I'm running a node on my old iMac... the longer time went by the more the hardware became outdated and the less the iMac supported, so I thought I'd just have sat in a corner running a full node, which it happily just gets on with...