Blown Up Crucial X9 Pro SSD: Can a Memory Chip Swap Save the Data?

Dead Crucial X9 Pro 4TB SSD: recovering the data by swapping its memory chips onto a donor X10 Pro board. Dead SSD or hard drive? Start your recovery here: http://www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us/ A Crucial X9 Pro 4 TB portable SSD blew up, and someone had already tried to fix it. The drive was dead: no power draw and no response from the controller. In this video I move the memory chips (NAND) onto a donor Crucial X10 Pro board to bring it back to life and recover the client's data. The X9 Pro and X10 Pro boards turned out to be fully cross-compatible. Both use the Silicon Motion SM2320 controller, so the original memory chips worked on the donor board. This was my first chip swap on this controller. Chapters: 0:00 Dead Crucial SSD: no power draw, controller not starting 1:11 Donor drive and the plan 1:56 Marking the memory chip order 3:26 SM2320 controller: will a chip swap work? 4:20 Hot air settings and marking the donor 6:04 Removing the memory chips from both boards 8:01 Cleaning the pads 10:15 Testing the donor controller in PC-3000 11:52 Trying a new solder product 16:56 Placing the memory chips on the donor 19:38 The drive comes back to life 20:23 Imaging the data Lost data on a failed SSD, hard drive, USB stick or memory card? Start a recovery request: http://www.hddrecovery.ca/contact-us/ Or call us: 855.366.4232 Website: https://www.hddrecovery.ca #DataRecovery #SSD #Crucial