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.
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Note to self, make new backup when I get up in the morning.
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
I’ve heard that pad repair is possible… But that would be quite challenging.
You’d basically have to repair it the same way it’s built, provided (as the other commenter said) the traces aren’t actually pulled off of the board. If they aren’t, then it’s a matter of soldering that component back in largely the same way it was done at the factory (without the automated machine of course, but by hand with heat and flux). It definitely wouldn’t be easy, but it could be a good learning exercise for the right person.
Yeah, I don’t think the traces were pulled off either. I have tried this once, and I don’t plan on ever trying it again. It was a PS3 and the processor needed to be reflowed. We tried to do it, and while we were cleaning the flux off of the old traces, we pulled some of them off because we let it get too cool. It was very, very sad. Everyone was sad. We all had a bad day that day.
Ah see… The problem here is that the front fell off.
Does that happen often?
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
Yea i would guess the pads are ripped i have never seen the solder breaking instead of the pads ripping. If that happend to someone near me i would try to fix it since it isnt imposssible if you have some experience and a microscope but not sure if your average repairshop can do that.
I do see one potentially ripped pad on there (top right). The rest seem like they should be fine.
Hard to tell with the image quality though. I’d definitely give it a shot regardless, spend a few bucks to save potentially many times more. Especially in this economy.
I dont think thats a ripped pad. Right(middle to botton) side of the chip whatsoever… Those are ripped 100%. You can still see part of the trace too
how exactly can you tell? just curious
Those thingies sticking out are like part of the traces. It can be solder, but that looks very sus and with the brown shade i assume its the back of a trace hehe
EDIT: and i just noticed there is a fitting mark on the other side. So very very likely ripped traces. And the more i look at it the more i think thats more ripped traces then alive ones hahaSo expensive data recovery solder op if something critical was on it.
50:50 unsolder and transplant all the chips onto a fresh nvme pcb or try to solder jumpers to the traces/pads to the chip long enough to get a data export.
What am I looking at? That doesn’t…oh … Oh my lord… Brb going to double check my backups in solidarity
So the thing on the right is a heat sink and the part that looks like a connector is actually a chip that was ripped off the SSD on the left, correct? That’s unfortunate.
Yup.
This is a whole new side of the DRAM vs DRAMless SSD debate.
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.
It’s a new product category, DeRAMmed
Did you film it so you at least have footage for a teardown video?
Insert “I will never financially recover from this” pic
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Kiwi on a rock
Have you tried soldering it back on?
I wish I had the skill to solder BGA. 😅
If push comes to shove, it can be done in a pizza oven.
Soldering it off and on again!
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I’m a little drunk, let that be explanation/excuse here:
When I was very young, like 3 or 4, in the early 90’s, I remember seeing commecials for what I now understand are fake fingernails. It was a commercial that showed a woman grabbing her–to a 4 year old–normal woman’s long fingernail, and casually prying it back so that it popped off and hinged back with a sticky yellow goo under it. What the commercial was selling was an acrylic nail that attached to your real nail without messy adhesives, what 4 year old me saw was a woman casually tearing her body apart. To this day I chew my nails to the quick so nothing can get under them, and I’m damn near 40.
This gave me the same “why the FUCK did you pull on it like that?” feeling as that commercial.
I associate this commercial with another commercial for either IcyHot or Blue Star ointment.
that’s nothing a heat gun and some flux cant fix.
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.
Nah the solder is propably not the thing that broke. From experience i would guess the copper pads are ripped off wich can be repaired but is not easy.
I definitely see a few ripped pads but repair is still probably doable. I’ve repaired similar in the past a few times. It takes some patience to say the least. If that’s a high capacity drive in today’s economy definitely don’t throw it out.
Yea its very doable if you have a microscope, i really like the small repair stuff but i would not be shure if your local phone repair guy is able to fix this. If i were in canada i would take a look at it. Even if it is a 128gb drive i would at least try, either get experience or a working drive nothing to lose.
What did you use for pad replacement in your pictures? I have always used enamel copper wire but i also have seen people use premade pads to gluee on.
They’re just some no-name BGA copper foil repair pads. You can get packs of various sizes for pretty cheap. Scrape to expose remaining trace, solder the new pad in place, remove excess tail, clean, cap with UV solder mask, solder down the chip, etc. They’re pretty easy to work with after some practice.
You’re right. I see now that some of the dots on the chip are teardrop shaped, so most of the copper pads were lifted off the board.
theres a couple torn up pads/traces if you look closely on the chip.
Still probably repairable, but is it worth it if the cost is 50% or more of a new drive, since Op had no significant data loss?
