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Rebranded SM2259XT SSD Controllers:

Kingston CS5341AA
SM59XT2A
ADATA Internal Codes

Common Known SSDs Using SM2259XT Controllers:

Crucial BX500 SSD
Kingston A400 SSD
Silicon Power Slim S55 SSD
KingSpec P3 SSD
Dahua DSS SSD

Rebranded SSD Controllers:
ASolid AS2258
ADATA Internal Codes N05K93
H6578

Common Known SSDs Using SM2258XT Controllers:

Crucial BX500
WD Green (SATA)
Patriot P200
Silicon Power Slim S55
HP S700
Kimtigo s300
Transcend 820
Colorful SL500(480GB)
360 Security Guard SSD

Common Known SSDs Using SM2256K Controllers:

ADATA Premier SP550
AMD Radeon R3 Series
Asgard M.2 240GB SSD
Colorful SL300 120GB/240GB
Kimtigo M.2 SATA SSD
SanDisk SSD Plus (SM2256S variant)
Ramsta S600
Tigo SSDs
Vastking V900 M.2 2242(128GB)

Common known SSDs Using SM2246XT Controllers:

Agrade ST40 SSD
Netac N5S 60GB SSD
Lexar Professional 3400x
SanDisk SSD Plus
SanDisk SSD Z400s
Silicon Power Slim SSD S55
Silicon Power Slim S60
Teclast S500 SSD
Viking Technology M.2 SATA SSD

Transcend P3XV60: Specific internal identifier for its drives that utilize the SM2246XT controller;
ADATA ISC3E: internal name used by ADATA for the SM2246XT controller.

PS3109 failed SSD: detected as Phison SSD, capacity detected in safe mode as 2mb or 20mb.

Most SSDs are using PS3109 controller under its standard Phison marking.
Common known SSDs Using PS3109 Controllers:

Kingston SSDNow V310
PNY Prevail / XLR8 (Early variants)
Patriot Blaze
Silicon Power Slim S55
Mushkin Atlas Vital
Zotac T500 / T120

New year 2026, new software upgrade, new firmware repair and data recovery solutions for all Dolphin users for your higher success rate!

DFL all-in-one Data Recovery Software-V2.6 is available for data recovery engineers worldwide and users can go to the Dolphin user-only forum to download the latest software.

What’s new in this new software?

00: Common quick firmware repair solution-WD SMR HDD DWF error fix, one click fix and get lost data back;

01: New WD SMR structured 190(three new types of 190) auto repair solution was added;
02: Users can import donor 190 for reference to repair severely damaged 190;
03: Improve the T2 generation algorithm for more successful PBA read after the files are deleted;
04: Improve the 190 repair algorithm, faster repair, higher repair success rate;
05: Fix one bug of T2 Loading failure for some drives;
06: Improve the 190 repair solution when 190 has bad sectors with some empty nodes;
07: Improve SMR selective head image;
08: Improve file image;
09: Improve image to file solution;
10: Improve USB HDD read ability;

11: Able to copy the model number, FW version, SN number of source and target drives;
12: Scan lost partitions and data of unallocated area;
13: Improve slow file listing due to the bitmap initialization;
14: New Seagate hdd families unlock;
15: New WD SMR hdd families unlock: VENRP2LP, FBLITE2, SPYG3, VENRP2L, VENRP2LP, AVALONRP;
16: Improve exfat file system analysis;
17: Improve GPT partition analysis;

18, To edit HDD ID for new WD 8x00xx series is added;

Any question is welcome to sales[at]dolphindatalab.com.

Data Recovery Tools Used:

DFL-DDP data recovery software
-DFL-SSD firmware repair software

SSD Data Recovery Steps 2026:

01: Open DFL-SSD firmware repair software, power on patient ssd, wait until ready(short to get ready when necessary);

02: Enter DFL-SSD firmware repair software, click LOD icon;
03: Switch to safe mode;

04: LOD>Loader Uploading(loaders are available within the software), the loader will be automatically selected;

05: Click FW icon, FW>Translator>Create

Create/select working directory

After the translator is created and the translator file is saved successfully, users can see the following messages in the log window:

06: Click DFLDDP icon within the SSD software

After above setting, users can click ‘ok’ and the software will switch to DFL-DDP data recovery software-file extraction interface. Users can start to extract the lost files directly or run disk image.

Dolphin DVR Pro. is very friendly to all digital forensic investigators who are trying to access and recover the video evidences from CCTV, DVR, NVR, HVR, digital cameras, video recorders, etc.

The following are some core CCTV DVR digital forensic video recovery features:

Latest forensic recovery solution added on Jan.18 2026: Forensic disk image solution has been added.

1, Write block is enabled on operations of all Dolphin DVR Pro;

2, Complete forensic checksum solution:
CRC16 / CRC16-CCITT / CRC32 / FCS16 / FCS32
GHASH32-3 / GHASH32-5
GOSTHASH
HAVAL-5-256
MD2 / MD4 / MD5
SHA1 / SHA256 / SHA384 / SHA512
TIGER

3, Detailed report on the video recovery case;

4, Users can save and clear logs;

5, Intelligent DVR brand auto detection tech. is used;

6, One-stop all in one video recovery and video repair solution is used;

7, Cutomizable video recovery solution, users can easily filter the bad and overwritten videos, can set the dates and time to recover, etc;

8, Professional but free CCTV DVR raw video player is offered to digital forensic recovery engineers worldwide.

Any question is welcome to sales[@]dolphindatalab.com or add Dolphin teams ID: sales[@]dolphindatalab.com

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year of 2026!

Dolphin team are sending all the best wishes to Dolphin users and their families.
Dolphin team wish all the best and greater success to all Dolphin users in the new year 2026!

By the end of 2025, Dolphin team have helped Dolphin users fix over 6489 data recovery cases by remote support and many Dolphin users have also fixed more cases by themselves!

Congratulations to All Dolphin Users for your data recovery success!

Dolphin team are adding more new data recovery solutions and latest DR techs to the existing data recovery tools and new software upgrade will be available soon in the user-only forum!

You can tell us what data recovery tools, solutions you want and Dolphin team will prepare the best New Year’s Day quote for you!

Find out all data recovery tools and solutions Dolphin team have here

Any question is welcome to sales[@]dolphindatalab.com.

After the users used the Dolphin data recovery tools, firmware repair tools and even head and platter swap tools for some time and then come to Dolphin head office or Dolphin international data recovery training centers to attend the training courses and this is the best time for training and get more skilled in fixing different data recovery cases.

Clients from Ethiopia have attended Dolphin clean room data recovery training courses for 3 days and the following physical hdd recovery training and knowledge have been arranged properly:

01: Detect all physical components which may affect head and platter swap success rate;
02: How to find donor PCB, hdd for different head and platter swap;
03: Besides a good head and platter swap, what else needs to be done to increase the success rate;
04: The core head and platter swap success technologies, tips and steps;
05: Firmware related operations to make head and platter swap more successful;
06: Hands on practice on different hdds and real cases for head and platter swap.