PC-3000 Forum

I have an Macbook 2013-2017 12+16 Pin 256Gb Samsung SSD. It died on me yesterday. Is there any chance that it can be recovered??

Soldering, PC3000, NAND Chipoff???

I tried using a heat camera to detect a problem. And find out the main controller chip is very hot.

Hello.

If there is a short circuit, the most effective way would be the NAND chip swap to donor PCB. But the main issue is that current Apple drive are using a compound which cover the whole PCB, including the NAND chips. It will be not easy to swap them.

Anyway, probably as an option you can try to find a damaged capacitor or resistor on the board which cause the CPU overheating. Simple component replacement could also help.

Not that I'm ever going to try this, but I didn't think it would be possible to swap NAND chips to a donor due to controller encryption on these Apple devices. Are they not encrypted at the controller?

Samsung CPU controller doesn't have any encryption keys inside. They are using only encryption mechanism, while all keys are located inside the NAND chips.

Great to know; thanks, Roman!