Trying to revive a WD SSD

[arupbsk]

I have a old discarded WD 120GB SSD which was from 2019. It was in use for likely 3-4 years and as it showed signs of slowness, it was kept as a temporary drive incase I need it. It was kept in storage for like 1.5-2 years.

Yesterday I connected it to a secondary desktop to try out the performance of a new O.S. , and the BIOS splash screen looked like it is stuck forever. Then I found out this SSD is no longer working.
This morning, I connected it to my main PC for diagnosis through a USB-SATA adapter, and found the following information.

Disk Manager is unable to initialize drive

WD Drive utilities is unable to recognize the SSD

CDI is interpreting it as some SanDisk SSD with 4 petabyte capacity. SMART data is not populated.

Low level format tool is recognizing it as 16kB drive and not allowing to perform a zero fill.

Upon opening the drive, there are 4 nos of 32GB SanDisk Flash and one SanDisk controller alongwth a bunch of SMD parts.

I checked all capacitors with multimeter for shorts because I heard that these MLCC capacitors tend to be shorted and removing/replacing them makes the SSD alive again. But, I found no shorted caps.
The VRM is also working, I got readings of 1.26V, 1.83V alongside 5.02V across the big capacitors.

What to check now?

My goal is not data recovery. My goal is to make it work again if possible even at low performance or reduced capacity.

[bigb123]

IC reballing might work. Since this drive is anyhow close to dead you can experiment with it. Also if you can get ur hands on working exact same drive, you can try swapping some components, do this if ur conern is data recovery.

[manohar5321]

yeah right, try a hot air gun or if you like desi jugads a hair dryer over the IC’s for a couple of seconds, any dry solder will reflow and correct itself.
This method has worked for me once in the case of an arduino where the atmega chip’s solder went dry after a couple of years in storage.

[AlphaSkull]

Microwaving Baking(to be more precise) it may revive it by reseating the ICs.

[manohar5321]

@AlphaSkull

Microwaving it may revive it by reseating the ICs.

wow never heard of this before, does it really work

[AlphaSkull]

Also try diskpart through cmd and try clean wiping the disk. Reinitialize the disk, might help.

[arupbsk]

Some quick searches revealing that repair is not possible , however data recovery maybe possible with cost and efforts exceeding the drive value by many times.

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https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=42927

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