Others had tried, he was the last hope for the data it contained. He zoomed in on the eMMC chip on its motherboard, desoldered it and hooked it up via a specialist eMMC reader to recover those files.

Interestingly, the literature claims to support VGA, but product images don't feature ... and 128 GB of built-in eMMC storage, while supporting M.2 2280 SATA SSD expansion "up to 1 TB".

The eMMC 5.1 Memory controller is compliant with the latest eMMC 5.1 specification released by JEDEC. The controller provides a peak bandwidth of 104MB/s and supports all of the security features ...