> I'm tempted to try to permanently fix the SSD using my SMD hot air blower. But maybe I should just replace it at this point.
Ah, a man after my own heart <3
With the modern widespread trend in tech of treating the owner/user as a security threat, it's easy to feel like the hacker spirit is dead or dying, and then posts like this rekindle my hope for humanity
My concern with fixing a storage device is that storage is pretty much the worst thing to fail. Maybe as a cache drive or perhaps for some large applications - but I wouldn’t trust it with data I cared about…
A fix like this is likely to rebreak in the same way. The question becomes how many times do you think it's fixable before thermal stress destroys the board. Maybe future incidents will be prevented by increasing cooling of the device in the installed system?
I'd be ok with this in a machine with regular backups, where you're looking at worst case the data from a day or two is lost, plus some downtime while getting a replacement and restoring a backup, and best case another trip through the hot air station. Seems pretty ok to me in that use. Would probably be fine for a use case with easily replaceable data too: if you've got a fast network connection, it could be your steam drive.
Ah, a man after my own heart <3
With the modern widespread trend in tech of treating the owner/user as a security threat, it's easy to feel like the hacker spirit is dead or dying, and then posts like this rekindle my hope for humanity