WD SN730 256GB Suddenly died

[ovovo]

I have a Lenovo laptop which had 256GB WD SN730 drive installed. Once morning when I turned on the laptop, "Boot device failed" appeared on screen and upon checking the BIOS, it was not detected.

I opened the bottom cover and touched the SSD, and it was hot near the connecter, specifically near capacitors and some part of the chip.

OEM WD SN730 SSD

One of the capacitors has a corner greyed out, that is short, using Diode mode, along with several other (at lease 4) capacitors along the square chip. I suspect the short (blown) capacitor is causing short in others as well. Marked with red dot on capacitors with confirmed short.

Showing short circuit capacitors with one being possibly blown.

How can I go about making sure it works even for 30 minutes to recover my data; it has family pictures/videos. Is that known fault in line with other WD SSDs?

[ovovo]

Update: The capacitor circled in this picture was shorted to ground, removing it solved the problem and I was able to recover the drive and data.

[Zero Alpha]

Nice job!!!!