- Oct 18, 1999
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Almost had a heart attack! I was setting up a new 2tb ssd and was gonna clone one if my 1tb ssd on it. I have a total of 4 ssd drives and I was unplugging them one at a time and boot to see which one was my boot drive. Found out which one, plugged the new 2tb drive and attempted to turn the pc one. Quick fan spin and quick shutdown. Then I spelled the dreaded burnt electronic smell of doom! Unplugged it all and saw that one of my ssd drives was not connected to the power cable all the way and the power cable and two contacts on the drive burned and melted away. I was pissed as I was hoping it was just my backup of videos and not something critical. Anyway, cloned the drive and out it back together but left the burned drive out. I connected it to my laptop via USB 2 sata and the drive shows up. It's the video backup drive so I backed it up to my laptop.
So, I'd like to know how it's powering up with 2 contacts on the power pcb burned off and is this now a non reliable drive? If you are looking at the contacts with the data portion to the right contacts 3 and 4 are totally fried off.
So, I'd like to know how it's powering up with 2 contacts on the power pcb burned off and is this now a non reliable drive? If you are looking at the contacts with the data portion to the right contacts 3 and 4 are totally fried off.