Some routine maintenence and losing your balance while holding a hard drive and ripping the cord out breaking the retainer for the connectors… 4tb Samsung ssd RIP
You might still be able to use it if you carefully superglue back the plastic part.
A more permanent fix would be to replace the SATA connector and solder a new one by someone with the proper skillset.
The important parts are still in good shape, don’t throw it away!
Seconded. If OP lives anywhere near a city, there’s probably an electronics repair shop within reach that would solder on a new connector for less than the cost of a new SSD.
Having all pins present, I wouldn’t be surprised if the drive still gets detected while bending a SATA cable back juuuuuust right so its connector makes contact with the pins.
Considering this is the data portion of the SATA connector I’d be worried about data integrity all the time 😬
I’ve used computers for years like that, also these card edge connectors are pretty standard and can be easily replaced by anyone who can do basic soldering.
Hmmm I could risk it and try the hero move here…
If it’s dead then it’s no risk, right? Afterwards it’s either working or still dead.
Steady hand with a soldering iron and that could be salvaged, good luck!
Hey Alexa, how 2 soldier
Hey Alexa, how 2 soldier
First step, you need to enlist. A soldiering iron will be issued to you, there will be many like it, but that one will be yours…
I’m doing my part!
ymmv with this, but it looks like a mostly ok jank fix. Those adapters won’t be expensive. https://youtube.com/shorts/yVV9Ip92ffg
I can fix that for you if you ship it to me
I did this to a PNY drive once and they RMAd it for me! I was up front and said it was 100% my fault and I had already had it for a few years. If you’ve got a laptop that has a mounted slot you can probably slide it in to get any data you need off of it
My sympathies that is painful.
Hopefully what’s on the disk could be salvaged from a computer shop or something. 4tb SSD though… Ouch.
Just my steam and GOG library, nothing valuable besides the hardware :/
If you’re assuming it’s trashed anyway may as well try to fix it.
