Solid State Drive(SSD) Forensics Analysis : A New Challenge

Abstract

There is a need of digital forensics approach to solve the cases of crime investigation based on the computer and mobile phones, which involves advanced to sophisticated digital misuse of systems. Digital forensics is always a advanced field as a career in forensics with the rise of laws that can take control on legal cases and computer technology that is becoming ubiquitous. This paper tells the studies of important techniques used over traditional Hard Drive Disk and upgraded technique needed over Solid State Drives to perform digital forensics investigation. Solid States Drives introduces a new challenge into the field of digital forensics specialists. The use of SSD is enough easy accessible and for many purposes it is used as a normal hard disk but many times faster and with the HDD's and needs very low power utilization. But, Solid state drive is not a change of hard disk technology; it is a technology that imitates the behavior of a hard disk. Obtaining effective information from Solid State Drives (SSD) is a challenging forensic assignment. SSD's may be deleting the evidences usually and even after sanitization of SSDs, information may be recovered.