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I could be wrong, but this sounds like the work of chkdsk to me. Look and see if it created a Found.000 folder in the root. If so, it's likely your data is in there and has been all renamed to .chk files. Sometimes this can take forever to sort through if it's a lot of data. Unfortunately...

You are right, they use both error correcting and checksum. I'm not sure it's exactly Reed-Solomon, the manufacturers don't provide any detailed on the specifics of the math involved. It's all under the hood, and can't be controlled or even viewed by the user.

HDD's don't use Reed-Solomon. That's only used in RAID 6 arrays. They use ECC which is basically just a checksum hash of 8 bytes at the end of a 512 byte sector. It's built right into the function of the drive, and you can't even read or access these ECC bytes. The drive does it all with no...

There's a known 2TB limitation on many USB to SATA bridge boards. It could simply be that your enclosure is limited to 2TB drives.

Yet again, partition recovery won't help much when the drive has been reformatted. Need more serious data recovery software like R-Studio for that sort of filesystem damage. But, before you do anything you need to get a full sector by sector clone of the SSD onto a HDD or image file that you...

Toshiba isn't owned by WD, that's HGST. While they may have had some issues years ago today they are actually really good drives. Right now it's Seagate you should be avoiding like the plague. HGST are currently the reliability winners, despite their past "DeathStar" issues. In a few years...

Getting back to the original OP's question, it's definitely best at this point to stick with a separate SSD OS drive and add a secondary HDD. SSHDs have a lot of future potential, and I suspect you'll be seeing a lot more of them in the future. However right now they are all experiencing a lot...

Actually that is quite incorrect. SSDs are different when it comes to data recovery as they employ a system known as TRIM. It's a system in which the OS logs the LBA's of files that are deleted and reports it back to the SSD. The SSD then begins to wipe (zero out) the now free blocks during...

If you formatted it, then you didn't just erase the partition you also created a new file system over the old one. So programs like EaseUs won't help. For this type of sustained file system damage you should use R-Studio from R-TT (R-Studio Demo Here) to recover it. The program isn't free but...

While the guide isn't bad all in all, for drives with bad sectors you should really consider using ddrescue in linux. It's much better than clonezilla at reading around bad sectors without killing the drive completely.