Corsair Force Series F60 SSD

[madhatt3r]

Hello,

I have a dead 60 gig SSD. As far as I know the computer was switched off, next time I turned it on the fault appeared (i.e. no hibernation bug).

The drive will hang the BIOS and there is no way to get past that (no setup and no OS boot).

They day it went it was very hot, plus the drive was inside an i7 laptop which gets truly hot too.

By what I have read I am led to believe that either some pins on the memory chips have become detached or some problem with the controller chip.

I saw on another thread that some drives have 4 pins to do some sanity check via serial port and a terminal, I think this one has them too, but I don't know the procedure...can anyone here give directions?

I am attaching pictures of the board to see if anyone can tell me if something can be checked with a multimeter.

Thanks in advance

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[Doomer]

RMA it
AFAIK SandForce drives are very hard to recover
I personally do not know anybody who would be able to recover data from dead SandForce SSD with SA damage

PS: This drive does have serial port that you referring to, but I doubt it's gonna help you to revive the drive. The knowledge is essential here and this knowledge kept as a big secret

[madhatt3r]

I don't care about the drive itself, nowadays it's worth peanuts.

I care about the data inside, would like to try something in order to recover it.

I know the data is encrypted and all that, but if it's just a soldering issue then there is a chance methinks (i.e. not talking about replacing the controller but resoldering it).

Thanks,

[Doomer]

I know the data is encrypted and all that, but if it's just a soldering issue then there is a chance methinks (i.e. not talking about replacing the controller but resoldering it).

Sooooo...
What is your plan? Stick a soldering iron to the SSD randomly, hoping that it's gonna work?

[madhatt3r]

Nope, but...

0 - Try to read any alert/status messages from the 4 pins
1 - Do some simple electronic troubleshooting with a multimeter
2 - Reballing of the controller chip (there's an electronics repair shop close to where I live)
3 - Resoldering of the memory chips (same as above, but I guess costlier)
4 - General Reflow

That's why I came here for help, specially for steps 0 and 1, and then advice on 2, 3 or 4.

thanks

[BlackST]

Forget 0 and 1, and try the other. If still no joy , seek pro help.

[Doomer]

0
Here is what you gonna see

[Doomer]

1
Measure all "0 Ohms" resistors that should be enough to waste some time