As an atheist, I ask for prayers that the backup’s good.
E: Your solidarity has worked. The backup is good and not too old. Note for myself and you - install your OS on a snapshotting filesystem so that live backups are possible.
A cellphone repair shop can probably save it for not too much expense. They have te right tools.
Thats a good advice, for that to work you just need to remove the solder, reball the memory ic and solder back if there are no broken/ripped pads. If there are any ripped pad then still can be done but you need an expert at microsoldering to rebuild the tracks
This is your OS disk? How would having a snapshotting OS like btrfs have helped in your situation?
Root on Btrfs/ZFS would have ensured I have a root backup from an hour ago. Ext4 (without LVM) means I can only make a backup every now and then when I turn off the machine, boot into alt OS and take an offline copy.
With the disk effectively fubar how would the snapshot from an hour ago of helped?
That might be fixable with a reball. Hard to say from the picture if the pads are damaged, but they look pretty consistent. So either none are damaged, or they all are.
I’ve done this. I don’t remember the retailer but they let me RMA it when I told them their website had recommended the particular SSD and external enclosure combo being bought together but they wouldn’t fit together without first removing that part.
I will never attempt to do this again. Fucking stupid.
This is a whole new side of the DRAM vs DRAMless SSD debate.
It’s a new product category, DeRAMmed
U know, in my panic before remembering I have a backup, I actually considered trying to power it on like that. Maybe the controller could run DRAMless, I thought. Then I came to my senses that running an SSD with potentially shorted traces in a new board is prolly gonna make a bad situation worse.
This needs to be marked NSFT (Not Safe For Techies).
Note to self, make new backup when I get up in the morning.
You don’t already have automatic backups?
Any drive can fail at any time. Eventually, every drive will fail. If you’re not prepared for that, you deserve to lose your data.
No I don’t.
The only things I will actually lose are comics I can download again from mangadex or webtoon, my Seerr requests, and my git forge that holds my docker compose files.
All of those things are OK to lose.
Insert “I will never financially recover from this” pic
why would you even
Because on the latest ASRock boards it’s damn near impossible to remove their metal heatsink bullshit for installing M2 drives. It’s easier to strip naked the drive and use their bullshit. Except when it isn’t. 🥹
So you’re a better engineer than whoever designed that metal heat sink “bullshit”.?
Why would you do this? It makes no sense. Hope you learned something.
So the heatsink is not needed? Or did you plan on putting it back afterwards??
I’m so confused.
That’s an expensive oops.
You could maybe reflow it in a toaster oven.
Maybe…
Yes. This is possible to fix with some skill and some flux.
Maybe
Bit hard to tell due to the resolution of the image, but it looks like some traces may have come up with the IC.
Sometimes, pads can still be left behind on the PCB while no longer being connected to the vias underneath them.
Yeah, good point. I’d take a shot at it with the right setup. Nothing to lose.
Worst case scenario is everything else melting off, definitely worth a try
Did you just pry it apart?
I did uh… very carefully… separate it… WD used fucking adhesive pads. I thought it was just a bit stuck thin thermal tape.
What am I looking at? That doesn’t…oh … Oh my lord… Brb going to double check my backups in solidarity
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Kiwi on a rock
Have you tried soldering it back on?
Soldering it off and on again!
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Looks like some pads ripped off with it, not impossible but definitely would be a bitch to fix. Though, in this economy, it may be worth it
I wish I had the skill to solder BGA. 😅
If push comes to shove, it can be done in a pizza oven.
