PC-3000 EXPRESS for Sale
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pauloa...@gmail.com
Dec 25, 2025, 11:12:18 AM12/25/25
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PC-3000 EXPRESS for Sale – Excellent Condition | €4,500 | Worldwide Shipping
I am selling a PC-3000 EXPRESS by ACE Lab in excellent working and cosmetic condition. The unit had moderate use for two years, then only occasional use for another two years, and has since been stored in its original box with all original accessories, plus several unused cables kept in proper anti-static packaging.
This board can be activated with HDD, SSD and RAID support, depending on the Technical Support package selected by the new owner. These activation options are handled directly with ACE Lab at the time of registration.
Price & Value
The price for this unit is €4,500.
A new PC-3000 Express, according to the 2025 ACE Lab price list, costs €8,000 (when on promotional pricing).
Technical Support (required to activate the hardware) generally ranges from €1,700 to €2,000 if the buyer does not currently hold any TS contracts with ACE Lab. If the buyer already has an active TS contract for other ACE Lab tools, the cost may be lower, it depends entirely on ACE Lab’s internal policy regarding adding additional hardware under an existing support plan. This is something only they can clarify directly.
Even assuming the highest technical support price, the total cost of this unit + TS still represents a minimum savings of approximately €1,500 compared to purchasing a new system, while receiving the equipment in excellent condition.
Specifications & Features
• Original PC-3000 Express board from ACE Lab
• 4 SATA ports for simultaneous, high-speed imaging
• 2 IDE/PATA ports
• Fully compatible with all modern HDD models, including SMR
• Includes USB Terminal 3 kit for full support of the latest HDD families
• Capable of HDD, SSD and RAID data recovery once activated with the appropriate TS package
Condition
Fully functional, no repairs, no defects, carefully stored and maintained.
Shipping
Worldwide shipping via DHL or FedEx, insured (flat rate €200). Preference for European buyers for simplicity.
Transparency
I own a data recovery company and have been in this field for many years. Many professionals in the international DR community know me personally, so buyers can be fully confident in the authenticity and legitimacy of the equipment and transaction.
Contact
To avoid spam harvesting, contact is provided in obfuscated form:
info (AT) botrecuperacaodedados.com
Important Notes
I am selling a PC-3000 EXPRESS by ACE Lab in excellent working and cosmetic condition. The unit had moderate use for two years, then only occasional use for another two years, and has since been stored in its original box with all original accessories, plus several unused cables kept in proper anti-static packaging.
This board can be activated with HDD, SSD and RAID support, depending on the Technical Support package selected by the new owner. These activation options are handled directly with ACE Lab at the time of registration.
Price & Value
The price for this unit is €4,500.
A new PC-3000 Express, according to the 2025 ACE Lab price list, costs €8,000 (when on promotional pricing).
Technical Support (required to activate the hardware) generally ranges from €1,700 to €2,000 if the buyer does not currently hold any TS contracts with ACE Lab. If the buyer already has an active TS contract for other ACE Lab tools, the cost may be lower, it depends entirely on ACE Lab’s internal policy regarding adding additional hardware under an existing support plan. This is something only they can clarify directly.
Even assuming the highest technical support price, the total cost of this unit + TS still represents a minimum savings of approximately €1,500 compared to purchasing a new system, while receiving the equipment in excellent condition.
Specifications & Features
• Original PC-3000 Express board from ACE Lab
• 4 SATA ports for simultaneous, high-speed imaging
• 2 IDE/PATA ports
• Fully compatible with all modern HDD models, including SMR
• Includes USB Terminal 3 kit for full support of the latest HDD families
• Capable of HDD, SSD and RAID data recovery once activated with the appropriate TS package
Condition
Fully functional, no repairs, no defects, carefully stored and maintained.
Shipping
Worldwide shipping via DHL or FedEx, insured (flat rate €200). Preference for European buyers for simplicity.
Transparency
I own a data recovery company and have been in this field for many years. Many professionals in the international DR community know me personally, so buyers can be fully confident in the authenticity and legitimacy of the equipment and transaction.
Contact
To avoid spam harvesting, contact is provided in obfuscated form:
info (AT) botrecuperacaodedados.com
Important Notes
All communication is handled by email
After purchase, the new owner must register the product with ACE Lab and obtain Technical Support directly from them to activate the hardware and receive updates. ACE Lab has already approved the sale.
Regional resale clarification: following a direct check with ACE Lab, they confirmed that resale/transfer of this unit is not permitted to buyers located in Iran, South Korea, India, and China, due to exclusive distributor agreements in those countries. Buyers from all other regions are eligible, subject only to standard ACE Lab verification during registration.
wayne horner
Dec 25, 2025, 2:19:39 PM12/25/25
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What are you replacing it with ?
Pro?
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Paulo Braga
Dec 28, 2025, 4:40:54 AM12/28/25
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Yes
RecuperoDati299
Dec 28, 2025, 5:37:36 AM12/28/25
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In our personal opinion,
Any investment in SSD recovery, both in terms of advertising expenses and device purchases, results in a loss of money, resources, and time.
Conduct a survey among the data recovery labs you may be in contact with and read on the other thread our analysis and suggestion given repeatedly to ACELab.
Essentially, only SSDs that are working are recovered, plus the old SATA ones that the PC-3000 supports anyway in PCIe card format. NVMe and Apple recovered with Portable III and PRO are a no sense percentage compared to the amount of SSD that we income. We send them to a partner that owns the PRO:
the constant reply is : it is not supported , it is dead. Answer yourselves.
With that stats would you pay the Portable investment?!?!?!?!
Only recoveries on HDDs are profitable (single drives or RAIDs) infact we are pretty sure ACELab predicts that many labs will close in the near future end they must income what is possible now with indecent policies like selling the Portable III , exiting with the PRO and not allowing a trade-in to those that purchased the III few months or few weeks earlier.
A part Acelab.
We need to push to spread awareness of the insanity of the SSD project:
- It's a hardware accelerator. It does that very well. But only that.
- It's insane because it's an electronic board and, simply put, as such it has the hyperbolically severe vulnerability of being able to burn out because of power supply failure, switching PS islands on motherboard, lightnings, electricity company supply fluctuations etc
- It's insane because the data is on chips which are notoriously replacement components... but if a chip with data inside burns out, what do you replace?
- It's insane because it's like rolls in the baker's basket - they all look similar but are all different, like the silicon wafer of the integrated circuit, so the life expectancy of that single chip is ABSOLUTELY UNPREDICTABLE.
- It's insane because (and only finally) the firmware is stored on the same wretchedly poor quality memory chips that AS IS KNOWN work "by consumption," wearing out EVERY TIME bits are erased!
So since the crappy device needs the infamous TRANSLATOR, the constant, relentless, repeated and continuous modifications to the TRANSLATOR (every file modified, added, deleted is an erasure and rewrite on the translator) end up causing
the most unworthy mockery to the unsuspecting (and technically ignorant) user:
"the translator becomes unreadable"
The SSD therefore crashes in BSY and you, poor fool, have the data there, maybe all good but inaccessible even to those who manufactured it.
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You understand well that Machiavelli can "jerk off" those who designed this insane disaster.
Therefore:
- Every time you can, try to spread awareness and discourage STORING data on SSDs
- Better an HDD for STORAGE
Otherwise even the last consumer HDDs will disappear and the existing ones, DUE TO IGNORANCE, would be/will be replaced PREMATURELY with the spreading external/USB SSDs due to the TOTALLY WRONG BELIEF IN RELIABILITY (reliable my ass, excuse my French).
At the same time, not only we but also all those who have an ACELab device should write to ACELab suggesting what we have suggested:
- Send a business developer to try to hook at least a couple of manufacturers, better if they're big ones. (I personally would try WD/SanDisk because if you think about WD's HDD firmware, it almost seems like WD has always conceived that the drive could end up in a data recovery lab) to establish mutually advantageous agreements.
If some manufacturers join, the others will follow because they will also want the possibility to write on the box that "in case of accidents, this SSD is supported for data recovery".
At that point, YES!!! The PC-3000 Portable PRO would be worth even $25,000/$30,000 USD,
because otherwise every computer repair shop would buy it. You'll end up hoping for an elevated price.
Currently instead, since it recovers almost nothing, they should offer it at symbolic prices of $3,000/$4,000/$5,000 USD and then we pay a fee on temporary activations where ACELab support solves the case.
Instead they sell it for a lot of money because, as I said above, these are the last revenues they'll make, then in a short time they will lose a lot of customers... because they will close due to too few HDDs received: the only real source of substantial profits.
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wayne horner
Dec 28, 2025, 1:46:48 PM12/28/25
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Thanks for confirming my analysis.
I tell my customers that ssd are great for fast temporary shock resistant portable storage..... But are mostly unrecoverable.
That they fail suddenly, completely and without warning.
At least a hard drive signals failure.
It slows down, clicks occasionally or locks up. You have a chance.
Ssd are easily erased instantly and with trim data is gone.
Many customers have wiped their computers trying to create a Windows update thumb drive. I have a customer, he wiped his wife's 1tb ssd with lifetime of photos. I find tons of names pointing to zeros.... Sad.
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Data Recovery Guru
Dec 28, 2025, 1:58:32 PM12/28/25
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PC Portable III (but Pro really) is targeting forensics service providers. That's the target, so the tool is developed for that demographic.
SSD support (NVMe more specifically) is not so great, because of how the manufacturers built them with locked and signed firmware, which is not necessarily AceLab's fault. It is not possible to really break into something that is not breakable right?
As data recovery first-minded pros, of course we want great NVMe firmware support, but it is not possible/feasible to reverse engineer them.
The tool is profitable if the market supports decent quotes (most of us here in the private sector) and make use of it outside the lab, which is what forensic folks need on many occasions (for public/government sector).
In forensics, the majority of devices are not failed, therefore super firmware support is not needed. Read-only powerful features on-the-go is what is needed & this is what the tool is for.
It sucks for most of us, but this is the reality. And AceLab does not care so much about us, because the governments have high spending budgets, so they care about them.
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pauloa...@gmail.com
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Sold. Thank you, and Happy New Year to everyone.
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