This needs to be marked NSFT (Not Safe For Techies).

Note to self, make new backup when I get up in the morning.

why would you even

You could maybe reflow it in a toaster oven.

Maybe...

I’ve done this. I don’t remember the retailer but they let me RMA it when I told them their website had recommended the particular SSD and external enclosure combo being bought together but they wouldn’t fit together without first removing that part.

I will never attempt to do this again. Fucking stupid.

Ah see... The problem here is that the front fell off.

What am I looking at? That doesn't...oh ... Oh my lord.... Brb going to double check my backups in solidarity

A cellphone repair shop can probably save it for not too much expense. They have te right tools.

Did you just pry it apart?

This is a whole new side of the DRAM vs DRAMless SSD debate.

Have you tried soldering it back on?

F

Insert "I will never financially recover from this" pic

Did you film it so you at least have footage for a teardown video?

That might be fixable with a reball. Hard to say from the picture if the pads are damaged, but they look pretty consistent. So either none are damaged, or they all are.

This is your OS disk? How would having a snapshotting OS like btrfs have helped in your situation?

that's nothing a heat gun and some flux cant fix.

Kiwi on a rock

I'm a little drunk, let that be explanation/excuse here:

When I was very young, like 3 or 4, in the early 90's, I remember seeing commecials for what I now understand are fake fingernails. It was a commercial that showed a woman grabbing her--to a 4 year old--normal woman's long fingernail, and casually prying it back so that it popped off and hinged back with a sticky yellow goo under it. What the commercial was selling was an acrylic nail that attached to your real nail without messy adhesives, what 4 year old me saw was a woman casually tearing her body apart. To this day I chew my nails to the quick so nothing can get under them, and I'm damn near 40.

This gave me the same "why the FUCK did you pull on it like that?" feeling as that commercial.

So the thing on the right is a heat sink and the part that looks like a connector is actually a chip that was ripped off the SSD on the left, correct? That's unfortunate.

System can always be reinstalled, just backup your data, that's the important part. Can recommend Duplicati for windows and Pika backup for Linux (borg frontend that makes it easy).

Glad your backup worked. I don't backup my desktop or laptop anymore. Everything important is in Nextcloud or on the NAS, and I have scripts to rebuild a fresh system when needed. I have found that works better for me.