ssd sata connection broken

bcham · 3 May 2011 at 19:48

just recieved an ocz agility 60g ssd today,installed windows 7 then i shut down the pc to swap the ssd in to a 3,5 caddy so it would fit in my desktop tower,
but when i pulled out the sata cable from the ssd the plastic around the sata connection broke off,so now i cant connect a sata cable to the ssd,will i be able to rma this,as it was so fragile,this is the drive,
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-031-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910

Surveyor · 3 May 2011 at 19:54

You can only try.

shine · 3 May 2011 at 19:56

If you feel it was a design fault then RMA it but if you think you might have applied too much force and broken it yourself you can try to fix it:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18122620&highlight=broken+sata+connector

bcham · 3 May 2011 at 22:17

ill try rma it only had it a few hours,if not £72 down the drain,

Antelopethy · 3 May 2011 at 23:24

I've done the same to a hard drive before, but all is not lost - you can either attempt to the glue the plastic bit back on, or do what I did and reattach the cable with duct tape

andy_mk3 · 4 May 2011 at 02:10

I was thinking only earlier today when sorting though my drives about how flimsy they are!

bcham · 4 May 2011 at 17:31

overclockers would not let me rma it,ive ordered
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-032-AK
would this work,as my other single cable went up in smoke when i tried to wedge it in.

Surveyor · 4 May 2011 at 19:15

bcham said:
overclockers would not let me rma it,ive ordered
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-032-AK
would this work,as my other single cable went up in smoke when i tried to wedge it in.

Er, no.

That cable is for 1.8" SSD's which have a connector which looks like this:

You have a 2.5" SSD with standard sata and power connectors like this:

You may not be able to tell from the size of the pictures but the connector is smaller on the 1.8" (micro SATA).

You need to use standard SATA and power cables.

I would suggest that if you tried to wedge the wrong sort of cable in you've sent more than the cable up in smoke.

If the retailer refused an RMA you should have tried the manufacturer.

If the manufacturer refused an RMA you should have glued on the bit you broke off and then used the proper cables.

Your SSD, probably.

bcham · 4 May 2011 at 21:29

Surveyor said:
Er, no.

That cable is for 1.8" SSD's which have a connector which looks like this:

You have a 2.5" SSD with standard sata and power connectors like this:

You may not be able to tell from the size of the pictures but the connector is smaller on the 1.8" (micro SATA).

You need to use standard SATA and power cables.

I would suggest that if you tried to wedge the wrong sort of cable in you've sent more than the cable up in smoke.

If the retailer refused an RMA you should have tried the manufacturer.

If the manufacturer refused an RMA you should have glued on the bit you broke off and then used the proper cables.

Your SSD, probably.

will this do

SATA 1.5GB/s & 3Gb/s Serial Combo Data & Power Cable 0.5m

paradigm · 4 May 2011 at 21:33

I've superglued one of these back on a normal 3.5" drive.

Can't see it being any more difficult to do it to an SSD. That drive is still in use today, 2 years on, and I've unplugged and re-plugged it a fair few times since the repair.

Danfoss2011 · 4 May 2011 at 21:39

They are fragile on the OCZ, i've mailed Tony loads asking them to sort it

Surveyor · 4 May 2011 at 22:06

bcham said:
will this do

SATA 1.5GB/s & 3Gb/s Serial Combo Data & Power Cable 0.5m

It will if it's a standard sized power connector and data cable.

Why can't you use a SATA power cable from your power supply and a normal SATA data cable?

MOOGLEYS · 5 May 2011 at 00:34

The sata connector on one of my drives broke clean off and the broke bit was wedged in the sata cable. I managed to retrieve the snapped bit but somewhere between me finding the superglue and coming back to my desk it was gone. In the end I just bent the drive sata pins up slightly to make a good contact and then superglued the cable to the drive and its been working fine since.

bcham · 5 May 2011 at 07:36

Surveyor said:
It will if it's a standard sized power connector and data cable.

Why can't you use a SATA power cable from your power supply and a normal SATA data cable?

because the power cable wont plug in as the plastic surround has snapped off ,but the sata cable plastic surround is still ok,so i thought if i baught a dual sata cable with 4 pin molex connector and try pluging in to sata and power slot together,

http://img8.imageshack.us/i/sataw.png/

bcham · 5 May 2011 at 21:38

going to rma to ocz,they agreed ,not like overclockers.uk.

Surveyor · 5 May 2011 at 23:32

bcham said:
going to rma to ocz,they agreed ,not like overclockers.uk.

I did suggest that that's what you should have tried before wedging a cable in and sending it up in smoke.

Hopefully they won't notice that you've fried the drive.