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Exploded my WD Blue 2 TB SSD

March 2nd, 2026, 16:53

Hello! I recently made a dumb rookie mistake and replaced my PSU but used the old sata power cable, which caused my ssd to blow up (dramatic smoke coming out and everything). It is a WD Blue 2TB from 2021. There were some files that were not backed up on there, nothing so important that I am willing to pay upwards of 1k to restore but annoying enough that I'd like to try to fix if possible. I opened it up and saw that there were 2 things that clearly exploded, with large brown char marks around them - what I believe is the pmic chip based on another post on this forum (on the donor board the markings are 9040VM509 UI50E 180846) and a diode on the back. There are also a lot of shorted caps around the chip which arent shorts on the donor board. I just tried to desolder the pmic chip (if that is what it is), but it was so badly ruptured that its tough to get off. I just wanted to ask here before proceeding - on a scale of bad to complete lost cause, is this worth pursuing? If it is, any guidance would be extremely appreciated! I have no data recovery experience but a fair bit of soldering and professional software experience, for what little its worth
I've attached some images as well
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Back of board
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Detail of exploded diode
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Intact chip on donor board
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Detail of the exploded chip
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Front of board

Re: Exploded my WD Blue 2 TB SSD

March 2nd, 2026, 19:58

Test for shorts between each inductor and ground. Those would be the output voltages. I suspect that the overvoltage has punched through the PMIC and damaged downstream ICs.

Re: Exploded my WD Blue 2 TB SSD

March 6th, 2026, 12:21

The photo tells it all, go find another SSD somewhere
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