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What to do with an SSD after it fails
Carol Haynes:
Seems to me it depends on why the drive failed. If it is a controller issue the only real option would be to find an identical controller and do surgery to get the drive working. If you can't find a suitable controller then the only options are storage (why?) or destruction.
ewemoa:
This still is a mostly unanswered question though; for sake of discussion, if the drive did have some crazy important data on it, would it just have to be destroyed in this situation? Is that really a real-world "solution"? What would a company's IT department do if they had amassed a group of failed SSDs with company data still on them?
-wreckedcarzz (April 24, 2013, 03:23 AM)
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I've wondered over the years about "services" that offer to destroy such things...why would one trust them, and even if one did, would they not be a major target?
Stoic Joker:
Granted I could be nutz... But I don't think the controller swap trick works on a failed SSD. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the which sections are weak/failed logic was part of the storage chip itself. So the controller could still be fine while the actual data chip has written itself off (so to speak). *Shrug* ...This could be a f0dder question.
Anytime a client's drive has failed to an extent that it cannot be electronically burned, the only option is physical destruction of the drive.
f0dder:
I've got no idea whether a "controller swap would work" - it depends on where the drive's mapping tables are stored, and a lot of SSDs these days (at least claim to) have AES encryption - where's the encryption key stored? And finally, on top of that, I've got a feeling that the prints aren't built in a modular way that makes any kind of swapping possible unless you've got lab-grade equipment.
Just a few minutes, let me open up my failed Intel X25-E and grab a couple of snaps for y'all.
EDIT: here - does that look like something you can fix yourself?
What to do with an SSD after it failsWhat to do with an SSD after it fails
Stoic Joker:
Zoiks! Thanks f0dder.
On a brighter note, that should be short work for a medium sized hammer.
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