Hello,

I have an OCZ Agility 3 with 120GB that has failed. It won't show any signs of life. I've online that this uses the dreaded Sandforce controller.

I wanted to know if anyone knew of any methods to bring this back to life? I want to recover the data that's on there.

Here is what the PCB looks like:

Measure the supply voltages.

EN6337QI, Altera / Enpirion, 3A, 2.5V to 6.6V, PowerSoC DC-DC Step-Down Converter:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ds/en6337qi_05800.pdf

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

Just not experienced enough to translate that ask into action. I got my multimeter out and prodding the thing for a while, but just not sure how to translate the pin out diagram to reality.

If anyone can help with more novice advice, it'd be appreciated.

Thanks

You need to measure Vout (see datasheet). The test points would be at capacitors C27/C28 and C13/C14.

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A backup a day keeps DR away.

put the black probe on a "Ground" ("-") location, and the red on whatever the datasheet says is a Vcc (+) connection. the value your multimeter says is the "reading". If you are told to measure at capacitors, then put the black probe on a "Ground" and red on the capacitor and report values.

a picture is useful, and example of a useful one looks like : https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=40472&p=284692&hilit=can+you+measure+voltages#p284692