Crucial 500GB SSD Drive Repair. What failed? 

What thermal camera do you have? Is it the Flir One Pro OTG camera?

I just spray the circuit with an air can upside down so it can freeze the thing and plug the power and the component that doesn't have ice that's the one I must change and it worked like a charm, and I spend like... what? 2 bucks?

what thermal cam brother

I’ve used a few of these drives with good success over the past few years

Keep any SSD cool and don't use for swap/ pagefile

@@BozesanVlad should be fine then, it’s not my system drive, and only getting used for bulk storage and lighter steam games here and there.

so who's responsible for data security, integrity or availability then? I would only use cloud if the client purchased it and provided access and instructions. No liability then, no costly lawsuits, no distractions. Otherwise you get huge risk for nearly no reward.

@@groszek7657 You’re overthinking the process. What you're saying is somewhat true but anyone can steal the package, take the data, the package could get lost now you have more money and time resending submitting claims through the delivery service. I was just thinking about the convenience of solving this issue in 10 minutes and then sometime later that same day this distraught customer could have their data at their disposal. From a photographer standpoint, if my hard drive fails (hopefully never) I’m sending it here first asap no questions. On my end I have customers to fulfill, and if the drive gets fixed over the weekend I may not see my files for a couple of days and would have to push customers completion dates back. If he was to upload to a cloud source the same day it’s fixed I could get back to work asap. That’s world class customer service. You're making it seem like people are sending in hard drives that host blueprints for missiles from Raytheon or the “blacklist”. And if they were you would probably have an agent drop the drive off and someone pick it up, no cloud, no mailing flash drives back with pertinent data. And last I’m sure he has people sign a clause that he’s not responsible for any data loss.

@@groszek7657 You can encrypt the data and share the key only with the customer. That's much safer (both in terms of preventing damage and in preventing data theft) than it is to send a physical, unencrypted drive.

Using windows as a professional SMH.

@@goku445 if it has the tools I'd use for the simple fact I'd not have to bring up terminal everytime I wanted to run something or mess with config files. With a PXE environment built with tech tools it's best of both worlds and it's loaded at the time you need it no remnants.

@@shadowarez1337 I think you mean PE version

@@maklogetrich2378 yeah oddly mine was labeled PXE but that don't make sense as pxe is like loading a os over the network via the Network card when no HDD is installed ie thin clients.

Io risolvo anche senza fotocamera. Il processo è un po più lungo ma ti assicuro che se fatto bene è perfetto. Si chiama metodo kelvin a 4 punte

I worked at a computer recycling and refurbishing company. We tested hundreds of hard drives, and computers every day. We had many crucial drives that were DOA. That doesn't mean though that it was a fault of the drive itself. The computer it was in was probably the cause of the failure due to a short and most dead ssd's we found were pulled out of dead computers. And most of them from laptops.

Heat can kill ssds (for example laptops), or using them as swap (like apple do it on its new devices) The world is full of possibilities

Already copied.

​. Perfect. Then the slow opening of the drive was due to something else. Awesome job.

Intenso ist der größte Dreck..da wird verbaut was gerade auf Lager ist..hab schon etliche kaputte SSD von denen gehabt!

if you measuring voltage drop on the diode (diode testing mode) it shows readings between 0.4 to 0.7V depending on diode type anode to cathode and OL cathode to anode. Readings can be different when measuring in circuit. Failed diodes will either be shorted (near 0 voltage drop) or they burn open (OL).

Any disk cloning software will do if you need everything. Otherwise if only specific data is needed (documents, photos, etc) windows copy is as good as anything. System files are just files if connected as an additional drive so everything would copy fine.

He soldered it to only one pad of the two purposely so that it is no longer part of or affecting the circuit. He could have just placed it on his desk, but they are so tiny, that might be a good way to lose it. The flux and re-soldering after removing is not necessary at all. It is just his way that he chooses to go about things.

I don't understand why the capacitor is even needed if the drive works without it?

Its just a bypass capacitor doesn't mater

What would you have done?

Cuz arm is broken

Then his desk will look like spiderman

if that drive is full then the downloading time for the customer will take forever

@@AaronJohnProductionThen don't do it for people that have crap internet.. Common sense needs to come into play when doing things.

Kenai? That's crazy. I'm thinking of moving to Anchorage

@@humble2246 really? That's awesome man