Samsung 860 Evo SSD Repair- Data Recovery Lab said it wasn't possible.

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[@LarryFrieson]

That was my SSD. It failed on 1/24/2023, and has has taken the majority of the year to be passed between two other recovery houses, before we sent it here. I find it very interesting that the day it failed, I noticed that it was drawing my entire USB bus (or probably more accurately the 12 and/or 5v rails in the power supply) down. (Pardon my ignorance, I don't know what voltages SATA/SSDs use.) The drive failed overnight, and there were no unique events that lead up to the failure. I did notice my P/S making an unfriendly noise while it was still in the PC. After I removed the SSD, of course that stopped. I first tried to read it with a powered external USB to SATA adapter, and noticed that the little blue LED on the adapter went very dim, and the SSD was making a not-friendly-buzzing sound while it was connected. That's when I immediately handed it over to IT and asked that it be sent out to be recovered. Two recovery houses deemed it unrecoverable, before I suggested we send it here. I can't thank you enough for the fix! I will be promoting you every chance I get! (Hummm. I have a drawer full of old spinning disks that have failed over the years that I can't bring myself to discard...maybe there's still hope for them too!!) This is a testament of what can be done with the proper tools, knowledge and someone who knows how to use said tools, and of course...knows exactly what they are doing! I had almost given up on getting my VM's, and some 8 years of code back. (Meh. ~2 years since the previous backups.) Mostly, time an effort that had been put into the 6+ VM's I have on that drive. Thank you Alex, it was a pleasure to watch this diagnosis and repair!

[@BUTTNUTT69]

Who cares 😂

[@ndbass09]

That commenter is why this video exists. Open your mind up to why someone might be interested in some backstory.

[@leonabc298]

@@BUTTNUTT69Your comment shows a lack of maturity. Why don’t you grow up a little and show some respect to others instead of leaving snide childish comments?

[@nxsmotorsports]

This is helpful information for anyone who has a drive and system performing in the same way. I know every case is different, but if someone notices these same symptoms, they can inform the person or team who is attempting the data recovery and they can focus their efforts on checking for these problems. I'm sure everyone has relayed their symptoms for a problem at some point in hopes of finding someone who shared a similar issue. Being able to search or ask for health, hardware, software, automobile, and other issues in person, online, or in a book makes our lives all the better. I'm always incredibly thankful for people who take the time to document their knowledge and experiences so that countless others can learn from them. Thank you for taking the time to share your observations and story. Glad it worked out for you!

[@omgused]

Given the nature of the problem, I doubt the data recovery labs had the expertise to diagnose the circuit properly. They are probably focused on checking the controllers or the flash itself or the port.

[@Karlston]

Not better than factory, better than data recovery lab 🙂 Awesome work…

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

@@Calypso993 calm down .

[@jasonb4370]

I can just imagine the amount of crying and sorrow that you prevented from that boy.

[@rotorblade9508]

labs… it went through many :)

[@drphibesrises]

Wow! I can feel your excitement. I'm sure your customer is happy. Nice work!

[@LarryFrieson]

His customer is thrilled! I'ma hafta put Alex on my Christmas card list now! I've been stressing for 9 months over this SSD! Without going into too much detail, there is code that only exists on that disk due to a nasty bug in some 3rd party software. I had almost given up, and written it off.

[@TheRealBobHickman]

My guess is "no fix" means "not worth their time to investigate further" - Great work as usual, and proving again that a little extra effort pays off. The customer is going to be very happy.

[@mercuraz]

Or they don't have the necessary electronic skills and tools to repair it. They would have data recovery tools and equipment but nothing like Alex has

[@heretic5552]

Even Alex has his limits sometimes

[@mryo-yobzh9485]

@@mercuraz Doing a reflow/reball that works properly must require some advanced skill and equipement, and they wouldn't have a basic multimeter, variable power supply and alcool ?

[@geraf33]

Data recovery labs literally just desolder the nand chips and try to read them on another board, which obviously doesn't work because the chips are encrypted to the controller on these drives in order to work.

[@scottrobinson4611]

​@@geraf33data recovery labs do a whole lot more than that. Look at Visual NAND Reconstructor, or PC-3000 Flash. These are complex pieces of software with accompanying hardware to read NAND chips and manually reconstruct the logical data volume from the physical blocks in the NAND. It's pretty specialist work. Takes months to get an idea of how a basic recovery works, and years to master all the capabilities of the reconstruction software. It's not just swapping chips to a new board. Far from it.

[@ejeckk]

The sincerity of that Alex smile. It makes me happy for both the customer and you. Great job, sir.

[@goldmarkg]

Alex, you never cease to amaze me with your diagnostic and repair skills! Great job once again.

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

the atomizer makes the isolation easier to find by far

[@frankbumstead3838]

I'm surprised especially a high tech data recovery team got far too technical. Sometimes going back to basics works. Well done.

[@Repair._What_else]

It is awesome to see you being so happy about such a repair even by having repairs all over the whole day - You put your heart into your work - that's so great to see! Keep up the good work!

[@bblod4896]

A fresh set of eyes that has experience in actually repairing equipment using proven techniques of testing and observation makes all the difference. Alex, thanks for producing the video.

[@isaacpargas5158]

I truly love Alex videos. The love he shows for each fix he does, and the excitement, shows the love he has for his work!

[@RPike-bq3xm]

I’m favorite repairs are those that others have tried. I’m always more curious about the issue when someone else has failed. You won that competition. Great job.

[@tobias721562664]

I would not consider the drive as fixed in the long run. Copy the data to another drive and get rid of this one ASAP. Great work!

[@SaraMorgan-ym6ue]

yeah, copy the data and junk it for a new one plain and simple

[@penttiranta9730]

Now the experts come in with advice XD

[@AtherisMods]

Love it! That smile is why I love repairs. You cant win them all, but when you do, it’s the best feeling. Nice job Alex.

[@85Pushead]

I'm not much of an IT guy, only built some PCs myself and so on... Don't know how NF showed up in my feed but I'm glad it did, watching Alex work is mesmerizing (like how he talks and how he explains things), a true PCB wizard!

[@simonanthonysaoud2059]

Alex, I had full confidence that it will work. Well done, you are more than a university

[@Stilkdog]

Glad you got this, data recovery is never a fun task for anyone. I saw the previous repair attempts they did and it looks like they just replaced a bunch of stuff or they just used so much flux and didn't clean it up I expected it to be difficult but that flux powder is really helpful in these sort of situations where you have many caps reading a short and components are close to each other. It's always good that we tech shops try and report or show our foxes or even fails as it can help us learn or improve our repairabilities. Great fox once again!

[@numbr6]

Sad how many system failures are due to bad capacitors. Amazing debugging/diagnostic work. Great job!

[@Zikatus]

they make millions of them so it's notmal they are likely to fail. anyway I only buy the SAMSUNG PRO series drives

[@Jacobt844]

It's not even my job but seeing it work and knowing we beat a specialised data recovery place because it took someone who knew electronics is awesome

[@richardwarburton90]

top work Alex, i love watching your skill and methodology to get to a fix where others have failed!

[@laidman2007]

That's an exciting victory! So exciting, I recited the events to my husband during breakfast. He wasn't quite as excited as I was.

[@gothamantiquities2595]

You say let me know what we think? I think you are a FRIKEN genius!!!!!! You have helped so many people I know here in New York that are technicians. I watched a video that you you checked the Star chip and fixed. When my iPad was misdiagnosed by many people and told to just buy a new one, I then went to 2 guys here in NY Angel and Eddie out of the Bronx & Mt Vernon area and asked them if it was the Star chip and he replaced it. Then my IPAD was fixed and didn’t lose all of my things that were very important to me! Thanks for all of your hard work that is helping people world wide!

[@time4thetruth305]

You are definitley the man. I just love watching your videos. Skilled, and Honest. Give yourself and your crew a pat on the back.

[@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics]

Amazing. Love the excitement and satisfaction 😁 Voltage injection and thermal camera looks like a very effective diagnostic method!!

[@tenmillionvolts]

Hi Ivan. I just came from your Jeep video. I decided to watch Alex do a repair, and here you are. The diag world is a tight knit place thanks to KZbin 🙂

[@chriscoolandcalm4364]

Am curious on. ,How much voltage

[@ivanfreely6366]

@@chriscoolandcalm4364 I'd imagine no more than what the device is able to handle. The repair guy started the lowest settings and worked his way up.

[@djosearth3618]

@@tenmillionvolts how due to yt?

[@graxxor]

His enthusiasm is top notch. It's so good to watch somebody enjoying their job and being so good at it!

[@robert3892]

I really enjoyed this video. One faulty component. You did what the drive recovery team could not. Congrats,

[@verovieira1]

He looked like a child when he managed to see the files, great work, congratulations from Brazil !

[@keno2048]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that still gets a thrill out of making something work like that. (Even after 40 years of doing it). :) Cheers!

[@WolfIonGaming]

This was an amazing video and fix! I had high hopes for the drive especially with the way you proceeded to work on it with checking the short on the capacitors using the flux spray! Awesome work im always learning with your videos! 👏😁

[@sieferswe]

Great job as always. I for sure would pay premium for this kind of service and skill 👍

[@geoffreykeane4072]

Wonderful fix! I was betting on it being that reflowed chip. Great job satisfaction to help someone who obviously needed that data!

[@RyanShaw96]

All i can say is WOW. Same reactions you did when finding the short and reading the files i was in actual shock in happiness lol. This video is incredible ❤

[@andybonneau9209]

Congratulations. Perseverance and skill go a long way. Too many people aren't very good at what they do and instead of admitting it, they make excuses.

[@dskebo]

This kind of info would have been kept secret in my day. Thank you for all you do for the public and making the internet awesome.

[@ambiguousguy5501]

Your excitement translated perfectly through the screen - I could feel it!

[@jameysummers1577]

I love that feeling! When I get a laptop that other business in town couldn't fix and I fix it. That is a great feeling. I am the only place in my city that offers soldering and component diagnosis like you.

[@paulgeorgiancaliap9828]

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[@gregvisioninfosoft]

You are an amazing troubleshooter with great knowledge. If any of my SSDS should ever give trouble, I will send to you.

[@mahdikairous1669]

If you keep going like that, I will fix any corrupted motherboards with just copying your technics. great job Alex. much love from Algeria.

[@traviss7740]

very cool process. It's interesting that you didn't have to replace the component to fix the drive, just remove it.

[@shepardsinsequence]

That’s crazy it’s like checking for a crack in an engine block… but they use magnaflux to find cracks in the block…. I love this

[@space4ace582]

Until almost the very end, it seemed like a no-fix... But you did it Alex! Great work! This one was a nail bitter. Thanks for the videos.

[@MrMojolinux]

Alex, you always seem to amaze me (and sometimes yourself)! Excellent work using your knowledge, experience and of course Northridgefix tools!

[@gregfisher216]

Great work Alex ! You never know ,but you try ,you use your experience , your knowledge to make the repair. Your joy at getting to drive to work is priceless!

[@MikkoRantalainen]

That flux powder trick was awesome! I'm actually pretty disappointed on whatever data recovery lab was tried first because this kind of problem should definitely be solvable for a good lab. It's not like those surface mounted caps a reliable and applying low voltage test current to search for heating components should be always safe.

[@DB25k]

That pc usb connection sound is the most satisfying... Feeling after the trouble shooting on the board.. Great video Alex..

[@hectorcastillo5966]

You always come with amazing repairs, that’s what I love about your channel. Keep the great job.

[@NateASE]

New to channel. I’m an auto tech and will remember you guys if I ever need a module repaired. Sometimes I come across cars that certain modules are on back order, not available or just flat out too expensive to replace. Great vid!

[@loubedoo2129]

Your skills, patience and determination are amazing Alex. Fantastic job and the videos are awesome to watch.

[@Jjesseddieus]

That is exactly what good knowledge of how a unit works & the willingness to try gets you. Good results. Very good job & a lot art, diagnostic testing skills.

[@colinreece3452]

The Sergeon did it again, well done Alex. That victory smile at the end, you got the bad boy.

[@JamesMorgan08]

That’s amazing, there’s truly so many talented people out there..

[@mrwoodandmrtin]

I now fix small stuff thanks to you making it seem commonplace. Before watching you, it seemed impossible.

[@thethoughtfield]

I knew it was coming alive again the moment you touched it, you have magical hands, .....and tools......and brains

[@NowInAus]

Classic Alex save. Awesome. Great to see you doing such simple magic

[@deathxxx1231]

You have very high chance to repair anything. I watch anything on tube or web, but you my friend are the best of best and super fast also!

[@michaelgleason4791]

As long as you're still working on it, there is always hope. Amazing how many things you've fixed with this technique.

[@digitalwoodshop]

Wow.... That was amazing.... As a former Sony Service Tech 20 years ago and Retired Navy Tech... WOW... I learned allot watching this video... Will watch more....

[@tecnogof]

I hope those that worked on the device at the data recovery lab, get to see this video and expand their knowledge.

[@JohnOffGrid007]

Fantastic! i would have guessed a NO fix after all the shorts in the beginning. I just found your channel and I run Mountain Home Computer Repair, i'm excited to do MORE complete repairs using your check for shorts method. Thank you very much for your videos. John.

[@Ringo300880]

Einmal mit Profis arbeiten 👍 Super gemacht!

[@S2KPHD]

Not sure how I was recommended this video, but it was well worth it. Knowledge gained today!

[@igordasunddas3377]

This is what YT is for. Thank you very much for this educational video!

[@joseph_donovan]

Data Recovery! More like Data Rejection! Alex has put those companies to shame! What a fix! What a delight to watch! Bravo Alex!

[@SuckitMU]

You are the guy! It was thrilling to watch and all well that ends well! Great job!

[@markmorris6246]

great Job Alex. i had high hopes in your ability. thanks for sharing, you made that person happy and maybe a customer for life happy.

[@Dynamictvc]

Since I started following you I have learnt so much and I trusted from the beginning that you can handle it. Well done sir

[@andrewm4894]

So cool to see your enthusiasm and satisfaction.

[@mrBDeye]

I thought it was a no fix after reading the letter from the lab. This was another example of experience and knowledge. NORTHRIDGE FiX AMAZING WORK !

[@georgibayramski8178]

Number 1 My mentor tell me "you will know how good is any engineer by his tools" As i know you try different and find better every time, ehst use it on your bench. I use your your technique today and fix s damaged motherboard with liquid. Reault was broken trace and short GDS. As i say, We learn every day.

[@busyonthefarm]

Love it when those aha moments happen while diagnosing anything really. I don't have them often enough. Thank you for letting me enjoy your aha moments

[@VintageCR]

Wow.. deemed a "No fix" yet, after removing 1 bad cap, it is able to work again. amazing work as always!

[@josemby619]

I did not expect that you will gonna fix it. amazing.

[@kiritosan7753]

Man i knew you would fix it. I was excited too to see the results ❤️‍🔥

[@AlexanderPrio]

You are insanely good my man! I'm taking my hat off for you! Bravo!

[@fragrance001]

your working style and troubleshooting method is mind blowing

[@derickbarrogo4481]

This is a Testament of Skills and Talent plus acquired persistence and Analysis of the situation over the years. It may look easy but it took years and years of experience in order to achieve this kind of Awesomeness! Thanks alex for always motivating us and imparting knowledge with these methods and repair.

[@andyhunter4850]

I had high hopes! Awesome job! Thanks for sharing!

[@prillewitz]

Good job! Spending some time for an obvious fault can lead to results as we can see! 😊

[@thewelder9492]

I’m so impressed. This is not just customer service but customer satisfaction.

[@GarethDaviesUK]

You make it look easy but your troubleshooting is genius.

[@mtngoat61]

Amazing work. A true wizard at work!

[@cryptombt5880]

Your skills are on the next level of smart and god like…fantastic work

[@ja.935g67]

Amazing fix as always Alex! Keep up the amazing work!

[@damolin77]

I always had faith in you Alex you don't give up that easy and just shows that data recovery businesses are not the be all and end all. I think this data recover business can learn a thing or 2 from you and hope they see this video.

[@LarryFrieson]

In my experience, _most_ data "recovery" houses are capable of running "undelete", and maybe "fdisk /mbr" and utilities like that. They are not able or prepared to go down to the hardware level, which is what my drive needed here. I'm very thankful I found Alex by pure chance, watching some of his videos, and I asked our IT team to send it /one/ more place--and that was the key!

[@colorblindboi5271]

I feel like I learn a days worth of knowledge every video I watch from you.

[@WMH-3D-Printshop]

well done as always. when I watched the video from the beginning I already had a feeling that you would find the error. due to reached which the others do not have on their checklist regarding troubleshooting.

[@sunflowers6612]

Great Work Alex . Where would the world be without a thermal camera

[@jayman912]

The best part was watching your happiness after you realized you fixed the issue. That is such a good feeling to know you beat the problem and I enjoyed watching you go through that moment again. Good job

[@shinokami0076]

[@Ryan_DeWitt]

He actually looked shocked. He probably though the chance of recovery after reading the supposed specialist report was pretty low but he was going to give it a shot anyway.

[@Dan-LXI]

Always a pleasure!

[@HarryLewinASR]

Very impressive. After seeing all those shorts, I thought it would be a fno-fix for sure.

[@darrenbrackenbury6370]

Amazing work. I'm learning alot from you and i have managed to repair a few items of mine so far because of you. Keep up the great work and i look forward to the next video.

[@playmangostingiu2217]

I trust you and I'm confident that you will fix it. That was my thought.. Sometimes putting hands on a device where someone else messed with, creates a sort of uncertainty, but you find always the best way that lead to the solution

[@dirzz]

Very satisfying repair!

[@Bartyron]

The title gave the outcome away actually. Good job as always.

[@savolainen9987]

Hat off! When I was doing repairs in 80s and 90s a good milliohm meter or brutal burn-something with sufficient current method did a good job, but in these days you need something even better. And I did learn something today, thanks.

[@irfan-106]

It's really amazing. Good job indeed

[@dienudelpfanne600]

I love how you love to help people.

[@eliezercatseye1298]

i wonder what will be the reaction of the shop who deemed that device as no fix if they saw your video. i'm sure they will feel embarrassed.

[@Nobbie248]

I hope the customer shares this video to them 🙏

[@giornikitop5373]

most "data recovery" shops deal with the software side of things and mostly hdds since if the disk is not hard clicking, software tools can usually ignore the bad sectors and you get some good chance of getting back data. with ssds it's a whole different can of worms. but only true data recovery centers can deal with hardware faults and they are very expensive. my guess is that the client send it to a local shop that did their best, but they don't have experience in electronics repair.

[@BrianFedirko]

I'm proud of you, and when this type of thing happens to me, I'm going to get in touch with you... I'm so glad this is here as an example. Ha, kinda like N.C.I.S comes to life (did you check the buffer?)... wow, great job dudes.Gr8! Peace ☮💜

[@ivanfreely6366]

I assumed the drive was dead and recovery wasn't possible at the beginning of your video. But you've proven otherwise. A job well done. 👍