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I had an internal SSD fail on me after 2 years of use (a Micron C400 512GB SSD). I wanted to try and repair it myself.
Dismantling it is easy. Things look good; physically the board is super clean and nothing seems "off" for lack of a better word, but then again I have untrained eyes. What are some things I can look for, and what are some ways in which I can try to repair it?
I mean, how do the data recovery experts generally go about fixing these devices? I would like to try my hand at fixing this device myself. I don't think its due to the MTBF, the MTBF is rated at 1.2 million device hours and I really don't think I hit that, nor had it been used too much; I never usually download directly to it.
For sure the drive did fail though, as I ran an ePSA boot and it failed testing on it. Also, it had the latest firmware and I tried power cycling it multiple times. Its dead, like dead-dead, like tombstone dead.
Alexandru
Posted 2014-04-17T14:18:13.910
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This might be better suited for Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange. Its a rather open-ended question, so you might have trouble with it on any site in the SE network.
– jww – 2014-11-13T04:03:06.467It's called Mean Time Between Failures because that's the mean. You could have very well just hit a faulty one. – slhck – 2014-04-17T14:41:13.953
SSD drives have a theoretical maximum number of writes that can be performed before a cell gets degraded. Another factor for failure is due to the manufacturing process certain "cells" can be created faulty which can also create problems. – jmreicha – 2014-04-17T16:28:34.077