SSD went bang, is it saveable?

Justin Credible

Justin Credible

Justin Credible

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So, hello everyone, hope all is well, now...

Today after receiving my GTX Titan and new PSU, excited as I was I made the school boy error of plugging the SATA pin into the CPU input on the PSU. Turn the PC on and bang, sparks and smoke fly out of the SSD followed by the cent of TCP.

My question is, is it possible to retrieve any information the on SSD?

I tried it in my bro's computer and it didn't recognise the SSD.

Any info much appreciated.

Cheers
 
how you manage that? they are different plugs?

leave ssd unplugged for a while (one to two hours)then try
 
Sorry to type this, but.......

If the "BANG !", sparks and smoke came from your SSD, then the chances of you ever retrieving data from it are a lot less than nil, IMHO.

The only chance you may have is that a fusible link or voltage regulator (if it has any of those components) has failed inside the SSD, and you can get them replaced. Even then, I suspect that there is very little hope that the memory chips survived.

As far as I know, SSDs run off a 5V rail. You may well have put 12v into it, which would have caused the damage.
 
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Sparks and smoke came from the where the SATA cable meets the SSD connector.. There goes all my work for my future album haha, oh well. I had to laugh when it exploded, thought everything was going a bit to well then bang lol. Yeah, it would have been 12v that went through it.

It was a OCZ Votex 512gb so I'm not sure if a voltage regulator would have failed...

How would I be able to go about seeing if I could retrieve anything?

I'm welling to send to anyone who can help.

Cheers for the help guys!
 
Justin Credible said:
See that's the thing.. I don't have any back ups, funnily enough I was thinking of backing up my data not long before haha. Oh well, whats done is done.
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Sorry to hear that, hope you haven't lost anything which you can't replace without too much hassle. Anything that I can't replace is genrally stored in at least three places one of which is cloud based.
 
By all means get the experts to see if they can recover the data from the NAND.

Please prepare yourself for the likely outcome "sorry, your NAND is fried".

If the minor explosion didn't originate from the NAND itself, it would have been from power supply components which power the NAND. The chances of the NAND (which I believe runs on around 3 volts) not getting "hit" by a much higher voltage, possibly the full 12 volts, are slim. I doubt the NAND would last more than a fraction of a second if it's supply voltage were exceeded by even a small amount.

Might still be worth getting a data recovery specialist to look at your SSD though, you might have been very lucky.
 
smsmasters said:
I'm pretty sure a professional hard drive recovery company can extract data from your SSD. There is a chance the NAND is still intact.
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A very small chance.

Sorry, but when you hear a "bang" and see sparks and smoke come from an SSD that's had too much voltage applied to it, there's little chance that the NAND has survived.

Yes, any voltage regulation circuitry might be the direct cause of the noise, sparks and smoke, but I doubt the controller IC or NAND will have survived.

I do hope for the sake of the OP that I am wrong, but I spent about 20 years of my working life repairing TVs. Delicate circuitry does not like excessive voltage being applied. Unless SSDs have been designed with protection against over voltage or reverse voltage being applied, then an incorrect power supply feed will cause damage. Sparks and smoke indicate serious damage, rather than just a fuse blowing.

If Justin could remove the SSD PCB from it's case and post a photo, it may be possible to identify what has been damaged (there will almost certainly be visible signs of what burnt out).
 
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