Can I FIX a Kingston 240GB SSD ?

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• DT

  @Dtr146 · 3 years ago

  Dude if he can fix this. He would revive a long forgotten trade of fixing SSDs. Because normally the nand flash or the controller goes.

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• PI

  @PixelMaker04 · 3 years ago

  I, too, was about to mention testdisk but I see it has already been mentioned a few times.

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• ZA

  @zaca211 · 3 years ago

  I got about 40 of these drives in a box next to my desk. I already sent back another 40 or so drives to Kingston. All failing. They all seem to fail in the same way. The computer slows way down and when you run a block test, some blocks come back taking them more than 500ms to read if they read at all. The ones that failed all the way, show the same problem you are having.

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• CU

  @curtiskorb3494 · 3 years ago

  As soon as I saw your intro, I knew there was a Phison chip in there 🤬<br><br>I can confirm that Phison chip is in &quot;Panic Mode&quot;, that&apos;s where the Satafirm comes in. The chip WORKS, but it&apos;s firmware is essentially bricked. I&apos;ve successfully recovered 2 PNY CS900 drives with bricked firmware, but indeed the forced firmware flash was destructive to the data.

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• FR

  @frankmathieson3029 · 3 years ago

  Might be worth plugging it into the SATA ports of your motherboard. &nbsp;In my experience those USB-SATA adapters aren&apos;t great at dealing with dodgy disks. &nbsp;However, having read some of the other comments, it almost definately the SSD controller so the recovery software may not work.

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• LO

  @lockjawbob · 3 years ago

  Did you try the power cycle method? You have to power the drive with no data connection at all, not even to an enclosure. So best way is just the SATA power connector in a PC, leave data cable off. 30 mins on, 30 secs off, then 30 mins on again. This puts a lot of SSDs into a mode where they will try to rebuild their mapping. Worked for me a couple of times.

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• DG

  @Dg-zj6jo · 3 years ago (edited)

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• CH

  @churblefurbles · 2 years ago

  Sometimes just connecting a dodgy drive to power only (no data) for a few hours can revive it.

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• HE

  @hellooohowareudoing · 3 years ago

  Great video. It also reminded me I need to do a back up...

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• EV

  @EvilDarkHawk · 3 years ago

  Sometimes usb chips interfere with certain data access patterns leading to disconnects. Try restore when attached via sata.

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• TO

  @tomasbergh · 3 years ago

  Hi! Just for your knowledge. Those protection mats of siliconrubber are highly isolating and can give really high static voltages on the devices laid on them. Here my 0603 and even 0805 can thumbstone just from the static charge... /Tomas

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• DI

  @DigitalDiabloUK · 3 years ago

  Photorec in Linux is the best tool I&apos;ve found for sw recovery. But I had a similar drive that failed after a short period of time. However I managed to DD the data from it to an exact same model disk, but had to put the failing drive in a bag in the freezer during the copy, as it seemed to be a heat related issue.

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