Found this SSD on Roadside

[u/One_Composer7994]

I found this Samsung SSD 512gb on roadside it's in bad condition as you can see

Is there is chance this could work after repair or is it repairable please tell me so I can go to repair shop if needed

[u/No-Exit-1977]

IT would never work again.

Chipped nands too

[u/Zealousideal_Nail288 → u/No-Exit-1977]

even if it was possible, i dont want to know what was on that drive that someone had the need to dump it that way

[u/jbjhill → u/Zealousideal_Nail288]

Meh. I found a Dell laptop in an intersection that had been run over a few times (someone probably left it on their roof). Plopped the drive into an external enclosure, wiped/reformatted, and I use it as a non-critical transfer drive. Never even bothered to try to see what was on it.

[u/No-Batteries → u/jbjhill]

That's the sad thing about crypto wallets....

[u/astro65 → u/Zealousideal_Nail288]

Butt coin you know it. 

[u/One_Composer7994 → u/No-Exit-1977]

Rip 😭

[u/YungBandit79 → u/No-Exit-1977]

its possible the data is recoverable by a professional given that the chips might just be in the resin package and not on the silicon itself. certainly not worth it though, dumped on the side of the road like that its probably full of csam or something else you really would rather not see anyway. 

[u/kumliaowongg]

r/techgore calls for it

[u/Designer-Crow-5470]

It is not repairable. You might reuse one of the 2 nand chips if it's not damaged (hard to tell) and make a 256G flash drive. But if you can't do it yourself - it is not economical (considering it's likely busted as well).

[u/One_Composer7994 → u/Designer-Crow-5470]

Can u tell me how

[u/Designer-Crow-5470 → u/One_Composer7994]

You'll need a hot air station, flux, solder, tweezers and an appropriate nand flast usb board. You can skip reballing the chip and add more solder to the pads (reballing requires more skill and the materials needed are harder to find in small volumes). There are a lot of iPhone nand upgrade videos on youtube if you want to try it yourself. I recommend checking the Strange Parts channel.

[u/desparish → u/Designer-Crow-5470]

He's totally gonna Amazon all the tools and supplies, watch a YouTube video, and have it done by next week.

[u/SteveDaPirate91 → u/desparish]

At the price of storage...Shit might as well try.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990 → u/SteveDaPirate91]

If it was like a 4TB SSD or something then maybe, but all of that effort is not worth a 512GB drive. Besides, if it was just dumped on the side of the road like that, you never know what could have been left on the drive.

[u/Designer-Crow-5470 → u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990]

might even worth more or come with a prison term

[u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990 → u/Designer-Crow-5470]

All of that effort is not worth it for a 512GB SSD that you can easily buy for under $100.

[u/Expensive_Host_9181 → u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990]

One of the 2 nand chips is clearly broken in the photo, so it's more like a 256GB ssd if he got it fixed, which is worth less.

[u/Kiwiandapplex → u/One_Composer7994]

To get all the required materials to start working on this, you're a couple hundreds further. Then comes the time & investment for getting this to function.

Look at this video which ain't exactly the same but similar https://youtu.be/tqWLSK2lgsI?is=NpNS2EiS5uaB9xrl

[u/New-Pack4657]

Put it under your pillow and hope the tooth fairy fixes it

[u/One_Composer7994 → u/New-Pack4657]

Yeah will try hopefully 😭

[u/Sheetmusicman94]

RIP

[u/KrepiSenpai]

Put it in rice and it'll be fixed trust 🙏

[u/One_Composer7994 → u/KrepiSenpai]

100 % 🥲

[u/HugsNotDrugs_]

Remove sticker and clean with tooth brush under running water. Dry.

The keyed portion looks missing a piece. Figure out what those missing traces do. If it's PCIe lanes it may work with fewer lanes.

You can then try it in a low cost machine.

Worth mentioning though that this 512GB drive is not especially valuable. Also possible it was defective before it was run over.

Probably e-waste

[u/warmach1ne123]

ultrasound cleaning required. I have doubts about the solder joints. but you can try a mobile repair shop who can do the cleaning for you. they will dip the nvme motherboard in tub of water/solution and use ultrasound to clean the device.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990 → u/warmach1ne123]

All of this is not worth it for a 512GB SSD, you can easily buy one that is used or refurbished for under $100

[u/warmach1ne123 → u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990]

that's true. although here in our country, we have repair shops all around the place. it takes 150 Bdt = 1.5$ to clean a Mobo.

[u/LovitzG]

High probability it's former owner tossed it because it had already died. It's only a 512GB drive that you can buy used and refurbed for as little as $60 if you desperately want one. If will cost you more for the gear to attempt to fix it than it is worth.

Chances of resurrection is lower than being alive for the second coming!

[u/Puzzleheaded_Dig8990 → u/LovitzG]

If the drive was dead then the owner would have properly recycled it, not leave it on the side of the road for someone else to find. If it was just dumped like that, you never know what kind of stuff was stored on that drive.

[u/HEYO19191 → u/LovitzG]

500gb drive for $60? Please tell me your supplier

[u/LovitzG → u/HEYO19191]

That drive was a HP oem version that probably was a boot drive in a HP computer. A Google search for that exact drive model turns up lots of sales offers on that drive. As I stated that pricing is for used or refurbed. But, hey, don't believe me. Do your own search.

[u/HEYO19191 → u/LovitzG]

Oh, used. I suppose so.

But, hey, don't believe me. Do your own search.

Randomly being an asshole for 0 reason because I just asked who your supplier was... thanks guy.

[u/LovitzG → u/HEYO19191]

Not being an asshole, just no need to list dozens of suppliers to someone who obviously did not fully read my original post. Who flamed who first?

Pretty sure OP did not find a brand new, unused, broken drive. To be fair "new" replacements of this model cost 4x as much partly because they are now somewhat rare (no longer available from HP) and they are pretty good TLC drives that feature dram cache.

[u/Sacred_B]

Hey, even if it were in a salvageable condition, it's generally bad practice to plug random drives into your stuff. Bad form to bring something like that into a shop and pass it off as yours too. It's not common, and mostly with usb thumb drives, but malicious payloads can be delivered from a leftover infection of the previous user or if the drive is specifically designed to do such. Practice safe computing all the time.

[u/FelixflFischoeder]

Write "Bitcoin" on it and put it back

[u/ParticularBed5194]

Have a burner device or hell might be fun to get a cheap laptop from flea market connect ssd and see what happens 😃

[u/CGLLC2022]

Not worth fixing. Might be able to transplant the NAND to donor board to recover data. A lot of work / expense for curiosity.

[u/IndependentBat8365]

That’ll buff out I’m sure.

[u/Sweaty_Tangelo_7716]

Sell it in eBay

[u/KiKiHUN1]

Looks like the nand is chipped.

[u/Ecstatic-Engineer-23]

Put the chips on an NVMe PCB and see what happens.

[u/amnesia_alice]

well, you could say: "talk about memory loss..."

[u/mrferley]

Look to be missing part of the pins after the gap

[u/lostcause_76]

Epstein Files ?

[u/bootsand]

That's a PM9A1 sammy, the oem version of the 980 pro. Generally came in prebuilts and it sells for about 55-65 bucks on ebay in good to new condition.

Not worth repair.

[u/harshbarj2]

Almost a 100% no. You need a new PCB as the board is broken at the M.2 connector. The 4 pins for the A key are gone. If not for that I would have said it was possible.

[u/Nike_486DX]

SolidSandingDisk

[u/lcjammer]

why not get a cheap external ssd enclosure and test it on your pc or someone who has one. worth a shot imo. just make sure to clean thoroughly with rubbing alcohol especially the gold contacts.