Faulty Crucial Solid-state Drive (SSD) 1TB (1000GB) - Can we FIX it ?

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I saw a faulty 1TB SSD advertised on eBay for spares or repair so I thought I'd take a chance and see if I could fix it.
Let's hook it up to the laptop, see what the faulty is, and see if it's repairable or not...
I'm not an expert, but I do enjoy trying to fix things.
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@zyghom 10 месяцев назад

and 5 minutes after you published the video, all broken SSD on ebay increased the price by 3x ;-)

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂👍

@wherami 10 месяцев назад

Dammit lol

@fluppi123 10 месяцев назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good one.

@maiden5427 9 месяцев назад

😂😂😂 suddenly that old ssd that arrived broken, is now dug out and is going for repairs

@eadge1999 5 месяцев назад

not all ssd is easy to repair some times there is one or more memory is want to rebolling bga connection fail

@marcyd2007 10 месяцев назад

Crystal Disk Info and Crystal Disk Mark are two great free utilities for SSD health status and performance. Well done on the fix Mick, nice work!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Marc 👍

@Frank-Thoresen 10 месяцев назад

I always use Crystal Disk Info and Hard Drive Sentinel (for continuous monitoring my hard drives)

@supergeekjay 10 месяцев назад

HD Sentinel is a good one too, it does a lot more than CrystalDisk. It is paid for but really good as it sits in your tray giving realtime info of temperature and sector issues. It will email you as well if things deteriorate, so great for servers and systems left running! It also allows you to repair the disk with surface and sector scans to force SMART refresh! I've never looked back!

@enginerd80 10 месяцев назад

Crystal Disk Info also tells the operating hours, which most drives keep track on. That would tell if the drive was brand new.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

The crucial executive utility I used at the end of the video (I think some people might have thought the end was when I was putting it back together) also tells you the hours, power cycles, health status and let's you upgrade the drive firmware (which I did a bit later). But thank you all for the alternative suggestions.

@jarinaumanen8447 10 месяцев назад

Someone has already measured capacitors before, because the traces of the probes are visible. I think it was you but whatever. Nicely repaired.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Well observed. I think that was actually me. I had to re-record that part of the video due to forgetting to hit record on the microscope 🤦‍♂️

@troy8736 9 месяцев назад

I can totaly appreciate you involving the softwares you use.....

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@robthomas7232 10 месяцев назад

I'm sure someone has said this already, but you can try a Linux live iso, write to to a usb and boot from it and then run gparted which is a gui partitioning tool which will show you both Linux and Windows partitions. You can either use the Linux Mint live installer iso which can boot to a full gui OS off the usb drive or gparted has its own live edition as well. The latter will be smaller. Now off to have a look at my dead ssd from a few years ago to see if its a shorted cap on that!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, yes I've got a couple of ubuntu disks, I actually used it for a year or so a few years back when I was developing some Android stuff. Good luck with your drive 👍

@rickoneill4343 Месяц назад

Another amazing repair. Just a quick tip for anyone wanting his model thermal camera. It is one of the very best for the cost out there. Make sure to look into the macro lens add on or kit as this gives you sharp detail for small components and board inspections. Most other cameras out there other than uni T may not have this option.

@BuyitFixit Месяц назад

Thanks, yes it's a good camera although the only downside is that you also need a phone to use it. Ideally this arrangement in a stand alone device would be great.

@pomonabill220 23 дня назад

I bought one of these also. I find the BIG advantage over a stand alone TC is that you can use a tablet with a BIG screen, or share the screen to a cast capable TV. You also don't have the frame rate of 9 FPS limit that most other TC's have.

@waynedavis5833 5 месяцев назад

Banging fix that ssds are normally impossible to fix well done

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 😊👍

@Doyle69 10 месяцев назад

Happen to me recently, bought a 1TB Crucial BX SSD for my 2012 Macbook Pro as a 2nd HDD, installed, copied old spinning 1TB contents over. Rebooted Mac so it could reconfigure, and it never did reboot, so many attempts, unplugged the new 1TB SSD and Mac booted, weird as my main SSD had the OSX installed. Once booted, I used a program called Drivedx, brand new 1TB SSD had instantly failed, sadly nothing I could fix myself or I would have, but I'm so glad you took a gamble on this and paid off, I love that feeling myself.

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍Yes, but it could also have went the other way if it was the main IC for instance that had failed. Thanks for commenting 🙂

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

good thing that's a new BX, should still be under warranty then. oddly enough that happened to a crucial drive (that I know very reliable as well as snappy, used and resold countless of them) not endorsing the brand here but I'm a fanboy, only crucial for all personal use 😅

@Doyle69 9 месяцев назад

@@puckchew Yeahh got a refund :) was offered a replacement but was a little unsure at the time.

@kiphakes 10 месяцев назад

I've used those drives for years now.. great little drives! :)

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Kip, I've not used them before. I've only had Samsung SSDs

@duncanny5848 10 месяцев назад

Superb. AND I am gonna try and find and give some use to the programs you were using for the disk information etc. very useful.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@wisher21uk 10 месяцев назад

What a bargain Mick, absolutely amazing fix all that for a MLC, so many faults are caused by MLC’s, tv screens included they are so sensitive they can crack, I have had one short took it out and it measured fine, and when it had cooled down it was short again lol keep up the good work 😊

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Gary 👍

@wisher21uk 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit you are very welcome Mick

@w.knudsen5570 10 месяцев назад

I see that you use a fluke 179. I love mine. I got it when i was doing industrial plant maintenance. Great choice.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Yes, I've got a couple of fluke meters. I've still got a 77 and a 73, but I thought I'd treat myself to a bit of an upgrade a few months back 👍

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

you guys, rich boyz LoL

@torfinnsrnes6232 6 месяцев назад

Fluke are category 3 meters. They dont explode if you connect them up wrong.

@povilasstaniulis9484 10 месяцев назад

Congrats on the score and fix. Those small caps can fail sometimes. MX500 series are normally very reliable. I have many of them and only ever had one die (and that was due to a faulty PSU). In comparison, I had several Patriot SSDs die in a few months under heavier load.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍and also thanks for the info 🙂

@longjohn526 9 месяцев назад

I have 8 of the MX500 series and have yet to have a failure, in fact I just got another 1 TB for 46 USD not that I really needed it but at that price I figured why not

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Nice 👍Thanks for letting me know 🙂

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

I agree, that one could be one of many that failed mfg. process and put aside for refurbishing but somehow "found a way out" even the cheaper BXs are equally sturdy, they just have less performance but in terms of reliability I have customers employing them in higher temperature environment so they're thermal throttle countless times but none ever fail. if PSU or whatever interface it has been plugged into caused the damage, owner must've got the drive RMAed already.

@retrosimon9843 10 месяцев назад

It's important that you update the firmware on these mx 500 ssd's to the latest. The old firmware has a bug that can lead to data loss.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, I already did after making the video. Thanks for letting me know 👍

@paultasker7788 9 месяцев назад

Heard that too.

@ChrisBartlett-y6q 10 месяцев назад

WOW, blown away with what is not in the box 🙂Wonder how much we gat charged for the emptyness.

@marcse7en 10 месяцев назад

The CASE is designed to conform to the 2.5" drive specification. The actual PCB doesn't need to be anywhere near as big as the case itself, which is why people often feel short-changed by the mostly empty space! ... Think about how tiny M.2 SSDs are!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Or the physical size of a 512MB thumb drive (not sure if they make them as big as 1TB)

@marcse7en 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit I believe 1TB USB Flash Drives are available 🤔 if you can afford them! 😲

@stevvieb 10 месяцев назад

So many modern electronic devices are knocked out by a simple shorted capacitor. Oh and love the vids , so glad I happend on your channel, THANKS for the vids they keep me sane.

@subgivtara 10 месяцев назад

I watched the video but couldnt understand that much.. is that capacitor burnt or it deglued itself from the board? He just resoldered it?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍Much appreciated 🙂

@Frank-Thoresen 10 месяцев назад

@@subgivtaraThe capasitor was damaged and shorted the power line. Had to be replaced

@subgivtara 10 месяцев назад

@@Frank-Thoresen where did he get another one?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

It's just a decoupling capacitor. The value wouldn't have been to critical and it would probably have worked without it. I just pulled one from an old board that was doing the same job.

@saydmarschany8321 Месяц назад

Very nice work, I do a lot of repairs, the only tool I need to purchase is a thermal camera.

@BuyitFixit Месяц назад

Thank you 👍

@generaldisarray 10 месяцев назад

Outstanding job. I was really hoping you'd find some data on the drive, like some missing Roswell alien autopsy footage, or maybe Rishi Sunak missing WhatsApp messages, or James Howells missing BitCoins...🤣🤣🤣

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍yes I was hoping there might have been something interesting on it.

@maicod 10 месяцев назад

I have three MX500's. I like them very much

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Cool, I've not had one before. I normally use Samsung SSDs

@maicod 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit yes I've got them too. EVO 850 and 860 but they have a fixed amount of their MLC space assigned as SLC so you can write fast but if your large file is larger than 60GB (I believe is the value) it slows down as the drive then has to start using MLC (and clearing out the SLC to the MLC). MX500 assign that SLC size variably so you don't notice a slowing down when copying large files onto it. This only works if you keep a part of the drive's space unused so it can use that as SLC

@mikecass8306 10 месяцев назад

Nice fix, I have loads of faulty SSD's, might have a look for dodgy caps. Thanks Mick 😀

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Fingers crossed 🤞Thanks Mike 👍

@jimharper6073 10 месяцев назад

I just used Storage Executive a few days ago, it had been awhile... I forgot that those details about the drive are available Thanks

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

No problem. First time I've used it 🙂I normally use Samsung drives.

@petesapwell 10 месяцев назад

Lucky buy, found loads of short SMD caps in my time repairing laptops, nice quick fix :) I used alcohol to find mine.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Pete 👍

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

did you say alcohol? so, you can't actually find them if not drunk? 🤭

@gd2329j 10 месяцев назад

Disk drill will show oddball partitions from windows . ( under the other tab ) . You can wipe stubborn drives with windows admin clean cmd , go look it up . ( It will zap even GPT partitions with bit-locker ) . Note the command can not be undone once executed .

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I've used diskpart.. select disk x ... clean.. to clean partitions before 😉

@ralphj4012 10 месяцев назад

Well done. You can also use diskinternals to see whether it was Linux formatted (though appears blank, as you discovered). The wonders of small ceramic caps, easily damaged by spikes, vibration and heat, not that power supplies, pick-and-place and reflow would affect those anomalies. In the Electron God scheme of things, I suspect you are the Overseer. I am, of course, Xaragon.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Ralph 👍😂😂😂😂

@gadgetmind Месяц назад

That 77C highest lifetime temp looks interesting!

@BuyitFixit Месяц назад

Yes I think that would have been just before the capactitor shorted 👍

@micbanand 10 месяцев назад

nice fix! I still have a mx300 2050GB. I got very cheap! on sale at the time (16.05.2018) for only 274€ :) where Half price :) :)

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍nice 👍

@Mymatevince 10 месяцев назад

Very interesting Mick, especially discovering it was brand new 👍

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Vince 👍I was just thinking about you! Guess you've just been busy lately. Hope you are doing ok 🙂

@Mymatevince 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit Doing well thanks Mick. Whenever you see a car video on my channel be sure that (including editing) at least 4 days has gone into it. So then I am playing catch up trying to get the videos people actually watch out on RU-vid 😂. I have read your recent comments on the coil/inductor on the PS5, I still need to Google the difference between them!!!! Sorry I haven't replied as of yet, be sure that I do read them. Congrats on the recent views, I see your channel is growing very nicely. It is well deserved, personally I think you are the best all round fixer here on RU-vid, your vast skillset is impressive. I hope your time is starting to be rewarded monetary wise 👍

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Vince👍. Coil and inductor are pretty much the same thing, and inductor is a coil of wire after all. It's just the correct name for it when on a PCB. If you search on RS or such for inductors see what comes up. A coil would be like something on a car perhaps? (Which is really a transformer 😂😂). I know what you mean about playing catch up. I'm just editing a video for the weekend, I'm trying to get 1 or 2 ahead but it seems after I release one I'm fixing the next thing and time I get it done it's nearly the weekend again! I honestly don't know how you do it!A quick question, as I was thinking of upgrading my hot air rework station and was wondering what one you were using? Great to hear from you 👍

@Mymatevince 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit Thanks Mick. I use the Quick 861DE. It can be VERY loud when cooling down so you have to give it a minute or 2 cool down before speaking again, sound s like an aeroplane taking off. Apart from that I really like it 😎

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

@@Mymatevince Thanks mate👍yes I did also think it sounded like a jet engine 😂😂😂😂

@sean9595 10 месяцев назад

Sound job at that price I would trust it as well like you say it’s brand new 👍🏼👍🏼

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@zenzen9131 10 месяцев назад

Amazing result man !

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍🙂

@bernardperaldi7488 10 месяцев назад

Alright. But how did you determine the value of the capacitor to replace it?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Just a guess, it's just a decoupling capacitor as it's across the supply. It would probably have worked without it.

@davidroberts2920 10 месяцев назад

Nice fix, What was the actual capacity value and voltage of the cap used? What are the best capacitors to use? Thanks in advance? 👍

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Well a rough guestimate would have been that the voltage would have been 3V or so at that point, even 1.8V or less. So I would have used something rated at a higher voltage than that and a capacitance of something like 0.01uF. I just pulled one from an old logic board that was doing the same job.

@duidelik007 5 месяцев назад

I wish that I could fix things like you do and then I would save allot of money. Nice fix

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@sevagtankabalian91 5 месяцев назад

Could you please tell us what was the value of the shorted capacitor that was replaced.Thank you for the video, great one👍👌

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Thanks, I've been asked in comments a few times. It was just a rough guess. It was a decoupling capacitor across the supply so the value wouldn't have been too critical. We can guess the supply would be under 5v, so we know the voltage and a value would be something like 0.01uF. I just pulled one off an old board that was doing the same job. Hope that helps.

@Rocco_v 10 месяцев назад

Nice repair! I have a used Kingston SSD on the way from ebay I'm going to use for data backup. I hope it works well.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Fingers crossed👍

@ChainShinra 10 месяцев назад

After checking S.M.A.R.T. maybe try a run in h2testw to check if all the flash chips actually work correctly. Seems to be a DOA drive to me as well and it might have never even been used at all. But better be safe then sorry!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the suggestion 🙂👍

@in2dodo744 10 месяцев назад

How did you know the value of the capacitor?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Just took a rough guess. It's only a decoupling capacitor as it's across the supply voltage.

@milhousesmom 10 месяцев назад

Did you measure the capacitance of the bad component or did you guess? How do I figure out what to replace an unmarked bad cap?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

The bad component wouldn't have had a capacitance as it was dead short. It was just a decoupling capacitor as it was across the supply. I just pulled one of another old board I had that was doing the same job. I don't think the value is critical and it would have probably just worked with it removed.

@1978JonBullock 5 месяцев назад

You took the risk and this time it paid off.

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Yes 🙂 It could have easily been the drive controller chip or one of the flash chips 👍

@ChrisHopkinsBass 10 месяцев назад

14:20 might be formatted as an Apple ADFS drive as they don’t show up in Windows. EDIT - agreed, just have been a return

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Chris 👍🙂

@mrv4757 10 месяцев назад

How did you know what value the replacement capacitor should be?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Just a guess. It's not too critical as it's just a decoupling capacitor and it might just have worked fine with it removed.

@johhnnsmith4 10 месяцев назад

Great channel 👍 keep it going

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! 👍

@brufty193 10 месяцев назад

Brilliant video, great diagnosis & fix.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Michael 👍

@tubeDude48 10 месяцев назад

Test Disk can be a bit daunting for a newbie, but if you know what your doing, it's the BEST! And it's FREE. I've used it for 14 years.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

A friend of mine recommended it, I'm not sure if I've used it previously or not. I've used loads of tools and systems over the years so it's hard to remember 😂

@sa666123 10 месяцев назад

What could be the issue if there are many caps shorted? I have the same drive, but with more NAND chips (older version I guess). The caps around each of the NAND chips seem to be shorted. Could this mean that something else entirely is causing this? Or is my drive just non-recoverable?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

It is probably 1 cap that's shorted, but they are all linked in parallel hence them all measuring short. Thermal camera would show which is shorted, or you might get away with some isopropyl alcohol on the board, and apply power see where it evaporates first. You can also get a rosin flux vape type thing that would put a flux mist on the board and it would highlight where heat is coming from. Hope that helps.

@sa666123 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit Thanks for the response. I was considering getting a thermal camera; this seals the deal.

@asdfghjk5352 10 месяцев назад

Crystalmark will show you how many hours it's been used for and how much data has been used plus much more.......

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks👍The tool I used at the end of the video shows similar and the power cycle count.

@Skiman__ 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixitthey all read SMART data anyway, so it’s the same info. Just that crystal disk info is displays more cleanly imo. Storage executive/samsung magician are good to update the firmware if available, so it’s not a bad idea to use them for the same purpose

@sasab7584 10 месяцев назад

I have only one question: How do you find the capacity of a blown SMD capacitor without a schematic diagram? Guessing by dimensions only or is there something else involved. I watched Northridge videos too, but he usually removes a shorted capacitor and connects to the drive just for data recovery, but since you've put another capacitor instead of the blown one, the question is how do you choose the capacitance?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Just a rough guess. It's just a decoupling capacitor I just pulled one from an old board. But it would be something like 0.01uf. The voltage you can work out by either measuring as it's across the supply or again a rough guess. Seeing as it's across the supply going to the main controller it's probably going to have 3v or less across it. So something like a 6.3v 0.01uf should be fine.

@sasab7584 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixitThank you. I will try it out. We have asked local PC enthusiasts to give me their SSD drives which failed in manners other than locking themselves in read-only mode, and I already got two, so I'll try to use on them what I learned from you and Northridge.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Good luck, let me know how you get on 👍

@leexgx 5 месяцев назад

Smart (like hdd sentinel, I use it on most systems) with low uptime or low start count would be new

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Yes, seems like it failed straight from the factory 👍

@Popeyes66 10 месяцев назад

Nice quick one.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Yes 👍

@cosminlungu4220 10 месяцев назад

How do you know what value have this capacitor?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

It's not too critical as it's just a decoupling capacitor. It would have probably worked fine without it. I just pulled one off an old board I had lying around that was doing the same job.

@EgoChip 10 месяцев назад

Windows Disk Manager will recognise Linux disk formats, and almost any other formats that exist. It's actually a very good tool for managing disks with. I use HxD for converting binary sprite and level data to C code when developing retro games. It's a very versatile tool.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info 👍

@subgivtara 10 месяцев назад

Where do you get the capacitors?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I just pulled it off an old board I had lying around. It's just a decoupling capacitor, and would probably have worked without it.

@electromech7335 10 месяцев назад

How did you figure out the value of the shorted cap? I like the videos. I watch them on my phone and it helps alot when you use the microscope. I dont have to keep zooming and panning around to see what you are doing.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍I've answered this a few times in the comments, it was just a rough guess. It's a decoupling capacitor to reduce noise in the circuit. I just used a 0.01uf and around 6.3v should be fine as the cpu only runs on 3v or less. Hope that helps 👍

@timd1833 10 месяцев назад

Nice eBay find & "easy" fix.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@davidquirk8097 6 месяцев назад

I've got a Kingston drive that just died. I kept the card and ditched the case ( into the recycling) with the plane of shredding the card to remove data. I think I'll have a quick check on the board and see if it's got a blown cap too.

@BuyitFixit 6 месяцев назад

Could well be the case, the capacitors on things like this are often a cause of failure. If you have a thermal camera you can see what gets hot, or if you have some IPA you could perhaps see what evaporates first when connected to power if you haven't got a thermal camera.

@davidquirk8097 6 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit I have both a thermal camera, IPA and (very old school) freezer spray. All I need now is the time to sit down and do the job 😜

@5argetech56 10 месяцев назад

For USB to SATA devices, StarTech adapters are the most reliable!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for that 👍The one I was using I've had for a while, I think it was just a generic one I bought from Amazon.

@nikkopt 10 месяцев назад

You can check the s.m.a.r.t attributes to see for how long it was plugged in and how many bytes were written to it. It might be used. When you delete something on an SSD, the controller will run TRIM when it's idle to improve performance. That's why recovery software is usually useless on SSDs unless you can run it before TRIM kicks in.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I checked at the end of the video. 180k or so written and 0 hours, 13 power cycles 🙂

@nikkopt 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit oops, I missed that last part 👍

@Damicske 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit did you update the firmware, it was yellow/orange?!

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

@@Damicske Not on the video, but I did later🙂

@bobsbits5357 10 месяцев назад

hi there is crystal disk that is fee this tell you the info you need great for used drives show you what is bad on the drive use it all the time bob

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info Bob 👍

@archloy 4 месяца назад

How did you choose the cap ? just one that fit the previous one ? (I rarely touch surface mounted boards because I generally do not know what's to put to replace a faulty component, while they have no label or color code.... Old valve amps are better for this x) ) And thanks for sharing that !

@BuyitFixit 4 месяца назад

Just a guess as it's just a decoupling capacitor across the supply to the main IC. So it would only be around 3v and a 0.01uf would be fine.

@archloy 4 месяца назад

@@BuyitFixit so "use your brain" x) it's ok ! Thanks !

@killmechanizm2424 10 месяцев назад

How did you know what capacitor you would need to put back on the board?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

@rh7163 10 месяцев назад

Of course you can save it. A man of your status and stature leaves no doubts.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂

@coley1skipton 10 месяцев назад

Why do they make the cases so big when really not needed

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

It's so they fit in a standard laptop drive bay or caddy. It's the same size as a standard 2.5" HDD.

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

yaa, you don't want to have the drive tilted out of alignment when you're cable managing and it's bigger thermal sinker as well.

@MikeKey-y7l 6 месяцев назад

Because you think you’re getting more for your money

@stevenknox9687 5 месяцев назад

A thing called form factor

@welshdave5263 10 месяцев назад

Nice fix, how did you decide the replacement CAP value? What model and resolution is your thermal camera module? I'm looking at getting one for Christmas.

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Hi Dave, The cap was just a decoupling capacitor to stop noise / interference to the CPU. The voltage of the CPU would be under 3v, and a 0.01uf cap is commonly used, so that's pretty much what I went with. I just pulled one off an old PCB that was doing the same job. The thermal camera is 256×192 pixels, and 25 FPS. The FLIR one i have is only 80x60 and 12.5 FPS. I put some links in the video description to the camera and other tools such as the blue mat etc as I've had quite a few people asking about different tools etc that I use, or "what's that grinding pen thing you were using". Hope that helps!

@WhiteDieselShed 10 месяцев назад

HWinfo or HWinfo64 shows the run hours and wear and tear if any. Highest temperature 77ºC ? None of mine have exceeded 31ºC

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I guess the 77c happened when the cap heated up and then shorted.

@Bl4ckSer4ph 10 месяцев назад

@BuyitFixit sadly, it does not confirm that the SSD is brand new... as i heard, one can reset the S.M.A.R.T. values...

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Interesting, although if the drive failed while in use, I'm not sure how they could be reset.

@Bl4ckSer4ph 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit dunno whether this would be possible while the drive is faulted, or not... there seems to be an 'management' interface on the PCB... i never was that interested in this matter - as i said, i only heard about it... BUT my 1st comment wasn't actually about that particular SSD, it was about the S.M.A.R.T. can't apparently be fully trusted...

@puckchew 9 месяцев назад

@@Bl4ckSer4ph oh well, let's just think that one of the previous owners (let's assume more than 1 owners just to avoid putting sensitive context onto 1 particular party) had a negative intention of resetting the S.M.A.R.T. values - blanked the chips' content in order to put a brand new value to the drive but somehow coincidentally fate decided to say hi and implemented instant karma 🤣, then you know the rest of the story 😁

@yvesrochet3288 7 месяцев назад

Hello, good job again, i ask me if is not a danger for the microprocesseur when you are using diode mode, this mode use more than 3,3 volts , the limit max supported by the cpu ? Thks

@BuyitFixit 7 месяцев назад

Possibly, although it didn't seem to affect it in this case.

@evertwaldus7093 7 месяцев назад

Fantastic , I like your videos mate

@BuyitFixit 7 месяцев назад

Many thanks!

@fu1r4 10 месяцев назад

You will not find any files or partitions on an SSD if they have been removed. The TRIM will make the files unrecoverable.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Interesting. I didn't know about TRIM until a few other people mentioned it too.

@markantony7413 10 месяцев назад

How did you find out the value of the cap?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

@NANO-SERWIS.MAREK-DASZKE 4 месяца назад

Simple issue 1 capasitor ?

@BuyitFixit 4 месяца назад

Yes 👍

@lmwlmw4468 10 месяцев назад

Nice work.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!👍

@Fifury161 10 месяцев назад

I thought Crucial drives had a "lifetime" warranty? Whilst I appreciate filling in an RMA request would not make for a good RU-vid video would that not be an option? Well at least for the original owner?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I have no idea. I think it was an IT supplier that was selling this, so it may have already been replaced under warranty.

@JoeBob79569 10 месяцев назад

Interesting that the "Highest Lifetime Temperature" is 77°C that's definitely out of spec. But it could have happened when you were testing it because some of the components were getting hot.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I don't think it would have recorded fully as the power supply was shorted to ground. The cap on the thermal was measure 188C.

@JoeBob79569 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit Oh yea, I just saw that now! So do you think that 77°C temp was recorded when the drive was plugged in first, by the original user?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

@@JoeBob79569 possibly, it might have reached that temperature and the failed.

@tomharris1457 5 месяцев назад

Another win!

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

Cheers Tom 👍

@bimrz1642 10 месяцев назад

Check the smart data for runtime

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I did at the end of the video. 0 hours and 13 power cycles.

@lifeisfuneh 10 месяцев назад

Congrats! How do you figure out the value for replacement cap? Thanks

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍The cap was just a decoupling capacitor to stop noise / interference to the CPU. The voltage of the CPU would be 3v or under, and a 0.01uf cap is commonly used. So something like a 6.3v 0.01uF. I just pulled one off an old PCB that was doing the same job.

@arva1kes 10 месяцев назад

I have 12 of these disks and freaked out if I saw there only 4 chips. Opened mine up and I have alot more of stuff in there. 2/3 of case is full and I have 16 flash chips. Even with linux/mac partitions windows still show partition and show as unknown. If it says unallocated the it means it either empty or flash chips are broken and controller reports drive as empty but you can't write on it. For smart data you can also asses drive health you can look at Terabytes written which was 135kb what you probably wrote in there with initialization/partitioning. Some drives have been running years, but as server spares so actual writes happening. I would treat it still as brand new if TBW is low, but workhours are high since flash is mostly that dies after few years. BTW one year ago northridge fixed exactly the same pcb harddrive and it was also bad capacitors.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info 🙂👍

@Trevorodunne 9 месяцев назад

Great Fix well done

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@banginghats2 10 месяцев назад

It's been a long time since I worked on electronic gear and have no experience with surface mount components. Are the caps marked with their value, or did you have the circuit diagram?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I just took a rough guestimate. It's just a decoupling capacitor. The voltage wouldn't have been very high (under 6.3v), and probably something like a 0.01uf.

@banginghats2 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the reply. Good tips and great video. I've got the same 1 TB Crucial SSD that died on me last year, so might venture in. Looking forward to watching more of your vids.@@BuyitFixit

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍it could well be a similar issue as those types of capacitor are a common failure point on lots of electronic equipment. If you don't have a thermal camera, putting IPA on the board or you can get a rosin flux vape type thing, will show what's heating up👍

@banginghats2 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the great tips. I'm glad I didn't destroy it and throw it out now. It has personal data on so didn't want to sell it.@@BuyitFixit

@jrswish120 4 месяца назад

Great video, thanks. Question, how do you know what type of replacement capacitor to get? Are they unique to size? Didn't see any print on the old cap. Thanks

@BuyitFixit 4 месяца назад

Just a rough guess. It was a decoupling capacitor across the supply to stop noise. It would be around 3v supply so I just pulled one from another board that was doing the same job. Probably around 0.1uf or 0.01uf.

@duskfall_777 8 месяцев назад

Do they use cheap capacitors or something? I have the same drive and it stopped working after just 4 years.

@BuyitFixit 8 месяцев назад

These surface mount capacitors are a common point of failure on loads of different devices. iPhones, Nintendo switches, xboxes, and I've had the same on a CCTV IP camera before. I think it's more the design of the capacitors and the need to try and cram more stuff into an increasingly smaller area.

@duskfall_777 8 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit You're definitely on to something there. Because I've had a 250GB version of that drive since 2016 and it's working fine still. You know, just for windows. But the 1TB one was out even before 5 years passed.

@bleeedthebrakes 10 месяцев назад

NAND wear can't normally be detected without using mass production tools Maybe the controller had it's internal bad block and wear leveling records wiped(possible for a supply short on those SMI controllers) Also most NAND controllers don't do raw storage, they would do a retrieve-on-access sorta thing(because encryption and LDPC and all that jazz) So HxD raw disk mode can't really be trusted I'd not trust those numbers and use this drive solely for temporary or low importance storage

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I think it will be fine. I doubt a short on the power supply would have caused the controller to reset everything back to zero (otherwise it would be a good trick to reset a used drive back to "new" status).

@wasserman63 10 месяцев назад

Great job as they say it not the big mountain what made us stumble but the little mole hills. a what 1/10 of a cent parts condemns a 100€ SSD to the trash Heep

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks, and indeed it's often just 1 small cog causes the whole machine to stop 🙂

@wasserman63 10 месяцев назад

i am an electrical engineer with forty years under my belt, and it never ceases to amazes me what small things can do the proverbial bug in the system best regards from Germany

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍greetings also from the UK 🙂

@divyas7159 5 месяцев назад

Is it worth the time effort n repair-cost to repair sata ssd instead of buying new one in the era of nvme ssd?

@BuyitFixit 5 месяцев назад

That depends, hopefully this video is useful to someone who perhaps might have important data on such a drive...

@user-dw6fj1py1o 2 месяца назад

Good work!

@BuyitFixit 2 месяца назад

Thanks 👍

@ninaevans4501 10 месяцев назад

Hey Mike, canny lad! Another great video, as informative and entertaining as always. By the way, there is something available on the internet that you might like the missus to purchase for you for Christmas (mind out of the gutter)😏😏 It's a hand held rechargeable blower, made by a company called LUCKEA. It works the same as a tin of compressed air, but you no longer have to spend money on tins of compressed air anymore. They come in all different price ranges, but you'll wonder how you ever got on without one, particularly if you have dusty cruddy Milwaukee impact drivers and such like to repair. Tell the missus that you wouldn't mind something that blows for Christmas!!! Always a great stocking filler!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍😄😄😄😄😄😯😯😯😯😯😯🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬🌬

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks Nina, I'll check that out 🙂👍

@luckywetland 3 месяца назад

Amazing 👏🏻👏🏻

@BuyitFixit 3 месяца назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@tanjem 10 месяцев назад

Kicking Ass ....

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Yes, it did turn out to be a bargain but it could have easily gone the other way too, if it had been the main controller chip for instance.

@tanjem 10 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit it works out nicely .. You have got gold fingers..

@BartPellens 4 месяца назад

How did you know the value of the broken capacitor?

@BuyitFixit 4 месяца назад

Just a guess. It's just a decoupling capacitor. It was across the supply to the control chip so it's voltage would be around 3v or 5V and a normal value is around 0.01uF. I just pulled one of an old board that was doing the same job.

@mime4331 9 месяцев назад

Shouldn't we check capacitors to the ground rater than both ends?

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

What happens if one end of the capacitor isn't connected to ground? It could still be shorted.. also if it is connected to ground then you are doing the same thing.

@mime4331 9 месяцев назад

@@BuyitFixit Agree. I thought of that after I had put the comment.

@armunro 9 месяцев назад

Could have booted off a Linux live USB drive and see if its recognized by Linux? Linux also has smartctl where you can look at the on hours, TBW, etc.

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍I had thought of that but didn't have a live cd or USB to hand. I used to use ubuntu a fair bit back in the day when cross compiling code for various CPUs (like porting Doom to various kids toys😂😂😂)

@bertbertbertbertbertbert 10 месяцев назад

How did you know the rating of the cap? Or was it an educated guess?

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Educated guess..it's just a decoupling capacitor so something like 0.01uf and the voltage would have been around 3v or under. So something like a 6.3v 0.01uf should be fine 👍

@jamiejoker118 7 месяцев назад

Hirens DVD for testing ssd etc

@BuyitFixit 7 месяцев назад

Thanks 👍

@وهابالربيعي 10 месяцев назад

I think if the drive is blank then all the data should be 0xFF NOT 0X00

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

That's what I was expecting, but it has had 0 hours and only 180k total written or so at the end of the video...

@markb4071 8 месяцев назад

how did you determine what 'spec' of capacitor to replace the failed one with ?

@BuyitFixit 8 месяцев назад

Just a rough guess. It's a decoupling capacitor to suppress noise on the voltage line to the IC so something like a 0.01uf and the voltage would probably be around 3V so a 6.3v or so at 0.01uf 🙂

@markb4071 8 месяцев назад

Thanks mick. Burning through your videos of late. Finally got myself a workbench setup so need to get on with similar jobs. More retro gaming etc for me, as a break from the IT dayjob

@BuyitFixit 8 месяцев назад

@markb4071 Thanks Mark 👍I love the old retro stuff 🙂

@frozerinosrepairs 10 месяцев назад

Great video

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

Thanks!👍🙂

@solodzghost5036 7 месяцев назад

when i connect my ssd via usb or inside the laptop ,,,,the disk manager and bios and laptop does not make sound and don't detect it at all but the cable shows blue light and ssd shows green light but what ever i try it doesn't work please help,,,,

@BuyitFixit 7 месяцев назад

It sounds like something may have failed in the SSD similar to this one.

@ggj666 9 месяцев назад

my 1TB non ssd cctv drive comes up as 931GB always has from brand new

@BuyitFixit 9 месяцев назад

Yes, it's because drive manufacturers class 1k as 1000 bytes and it's actually 1024. All of those extra 24's add up which makes the actual capacity less. Marketing at it's best.. 😂😂

@stoutheuvel 3 месяца назад

We have a 525GB Crucial that stopped working. Could you perhaps fix this for us?

@BuyitFixit 3 месяца назад

What it is doing? Is it still detected by the PC?

@SonnyHoood 4 месяца назад

11:25 just burnt that crystal mate, need a finer iron tip

@BuyitFixit 4 месяца назад

It's just the flux from the iron, the crystal is metal and was unharmed 🙂 I've got smaller tips but I find they don't seem to be able to provide enough heat through the fine tip to remove components very well. At times burnt components like this also fuse themselves to the tracks making them almost impossible to remove without taking part of the track with it. I had this on the Milwaukee impact driver I looked at.

@sismofytter 10 месяцев назад

Solid state drive drive, I don't think they exist 😉😅

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I just noticed that on the thumbnail. I'm not sure if SS Drive might look worse 😂😂 seems northridge fix has put the same in his title too..

@coladict 10 месяцев назад

I believe even coming out of the factory it would normally have SOME metadata written there that is not just zeroes. It's likely that the fault triggered a reset of all the bits in the memory chip.

@BuyitFixit 10 месяцев назад

I've seen other channels repair such drives with the same fault, and all of the data has remained intact. It usually requires a specific erase sequence to be sent to the chip to erase it. The short would have cut power to the device. The number of power cycles, drive serial number, capacity etc weren't blank.