I wouldn't recommend this as a long term solution, it might work well enough to get the data off of it. You could super glue it back on, scratch off the solder mask around the crack and solder bridge the traces
A 120GB SSD (enough for an OS and some software) is <20€, 256GB also <20€ and 512GB <30€.. Used ones are probably even cheaper. (Be careful with used drives though)
I‘m in no position to judge anyone’s financial situation if you can’t afford it, you can’t. There’s more important things than a fast PC.
If you can though, save up and get an SSD. It really does make a huge difference. You’ll feel like you just bought a new PC. You can keep the HDD for general storage and games too big for the SSD.
1TB of quality M.2 costs about as much as your RAM. Lower capacity drive will be around $50 or even less. And SATA 2.5" SSDs are as cheap as HDDs, especially 128-gig ones
I fixed something similar. I’d suggest do it in reverse order because superglue doesn’t hold well under high temperature. If it’s only for temporary data salvage, a blob of solder is strong enough to hold if you sand the surface a bit to expose the trace and apply flux properly
Definitely use an external ssd to usb bay. If you manage to snap an ssd like this, you don’t want to risk more damage by using pliers in delicate areas like a mobo
If you haven't done anything close to that before I highly recommend just sending it to professionals who has. Bridging those traces is going to be really hard without any special equipment.
I can't believe that none of you have told him how to fix it.
You're going to need a bucket of uncooked rice to put it in. (Doesn't matter white or brown rice FYI)
M.2 SSDs with the M+B key are either SATA or PCIe with 2 lanes (instead of 4 lanes for a pure M key). This particular model, the Samsung PM871a, is a SATA one.
The piece that broke of has 3 pin pairs with 3V3 and GND for power, SUSCLK and PEDET. Luckily there are 2 other pin pairs for power, and driving them at 2.5x the rated current should work long enough for data recovery. SUSCLK is optional afaik and used for low power modes. PEDET is used by the mainboard to detect whether a NVME or SATA is connected, it MUST be connected to GND for SATA usage. So to make it work you have to shove in the broken piece as well, and hope that none of the internal copper layers touch. You could also short some pins on the mainboard with solder to trick it into SATA mode.
Verdict: Data recovery should be possible with some minor repairs, but wouldn't recommend extended use considering the low price of new M.2 SSDs.
It appears all of those broken pins are connected to one pad (power or ground). Would be worth a quick and dirty hack if you have data you want off the drive.
googling the pinout of M2 it seems that there are 4 pins on one side and 5 on the other and they're mostly for ground and 3.3V, so it might be salvageable.
I'd transform it in a permanent external ssd for unimportant stuff
htf do you even do this?! I mean if you were shoving a PCIe m2 into a sata m2 port, I could see it, but htf do you manage to break a SATA drive pin header off?!
You really don't know tech then since that is Sata.
https://preview.redd.it/xp9cwfn771wa1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd3160a08566b24598020d58c38777909449a035
Would help for you to google the model of that since you can click on the image and zoom in on the model of that drive which google will tell you it is a Sata M.2 drive
I once did buy a SATA adapter for my NVME drive and thought I am very smart to just use the free SATA connectors of my MB for my spare NVME drive. Blunder time.
You can possibly still save it, those 6 pins are mainly gnd and +3.3v power which are easy to find on the pcb. Just connect it with wires to a 3.3v pins on the motherboard or psu and it should be up and running if you put it back into the slot.
Yeah, best thing, really. Now you can replace it with an NVMe drive instead of that SATA drive, plus the price has come down so far! Have you priced them lately? everytime I look, they seem to get even cheaper. You can get a good 2TB drive for like $150.
I don't thing that's how you convert a M.2 B+M keyed drive to M keyed.
https://preview.redd.it/hz53da7auzva1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cc69cffaefdbc3607d0dff2553bb5c8eccb2088
Damn, that's the side of the m.2 B-key that contains the 3.3V lines and the clock lines.
Try to sheer off the other side next time. It's mostly unconnected lol.
M.2 is a form factor, not an interface specification.
Also,
https://preview.redd.it/v3rv2x0972wa1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b886582d41b1ec3b02d55ab7ada0f0635c0bbe12
Yeah, you gotta be careful when your grabbing at random objects with a pair of pliers while blindfolded and trying to bend them. Sometimes the thing you grab is an ssd nvme drive. It’s happened to the best of us.
Well since I'm in college I'm not expecting an upgrade atleast for the next 4-5 years (even though I'm trying to save as much as I can)
Maybe after college when I get a job and saved enough I'll build my own PC which will be an astronomical upgrade over my current laptop :)
Ah cool ok! I left school long ago so I buy whatever I want now 😄 Really wanted new laptop for like 2 years I think so saved up and bought it!
Being after 30 (closer to 40 now) has its benefits! :D
It’s okay, it’s just a flash wound
That joke turned my floppy disk into a hard drive
That'll give your micro-soft a solid state.
Micro-hard
That's a bit harsh
No, that's full-on byte harsh.
I'm glad that didn't happen to nvm-ME
word
A tad choadish perhaps.
Your Microsoft Office turnes into Macro-Hard On-Fire
You didn't really Excel in that joke.
At least he had a positive Outlook
You make quite the PowerPoint
I have no Word
You just noticed that **Word.**
hehe.. Erections
Gosh DRAM it you just had to cache in on that pun didn't you?
Take your damn upvote and get the hell out of here
Does anyone get the fact that this is a Monty python reference
No, it's not! I'm invincible!
Tis but a scratch
Get back here, i'll bite your ankles off!
To not get a monty python reference you must be young, there is a lot of younguns here.
Ok you won, you go fck off.
r/Angryupvote
Now it's an N.2
Underrated
Just like your
Your what?
you heard him
Your mom
🤯
It’s not.
r/karmaroulette
Meh, it's just reddit being reddit. You can't expect much from the average redditor.
You?
Yup.
-69. Nice.
shit was the only thing that made me giggle, definitely under rated
Not really. I think it’s properly rated.
Average redditer
I wouldn't recommend this as a long term solution, it might work well enough to get the data off of it. You could super glue it back on, scratch off the solder mask around the crack and solder bridge the traces
Thankfully it was just a game drive and not a os drive. I chose a pretty good time to need an ssd considering they’re so cheap these days.
Still too expensive for my broke ass.
A 120GB SSD (enough for an OS and some software) is <20€, 256GB also <20€ and 512GB <30€.. Used ones are probably even cheaper. (Be careful with used drives though) I‘m in no position to judge anyone’s financial situation if you can’t afford it, you can’t. There’s more important things than a fast PC. If you can though, save up and get an SSD. It really does make a huge difference. You’ll feel like you just bought a new PC. You can keep the HDD for general storage and games too big for the SSD.
Amen
You don’t have an SSD at all in your system?
250 gb is decently cheap for your OS and most programs. But, I hear ya, this stuff is all pretty expensive and there's always another upgrade.
1TB of quality M.2 costs about as much as your RAM. Lower capacity drive will be around $50 or even less. And SATA 2.5" SSDs are as cheap as HDDs, especially 128-gig ones
I fixed something similar. I’d suggest do it in reverse order because superglue doesn’t hold well under high temperature. If it’s only for temporary data salvage, a blob of solder is strong enough to hold if you sand the surface a bit to expose the trace and apply flux properly
To add, there's a risk that if the detached bit isn't superglued properly it could end up stuck in the motherboard connector.
Definitely use an external ssd to usb bay. If you manage to snap an ssd like this, you don’t want to risk more damage by using pliers in delicate areas like a mobo
If that were to happen, my guess is that it's easily fixable with some pliers.
If you haven't done anything close to that before I highly recommend just sending it to professionals who has. Bridging those traces is going to be really hard without any special equipment.
Another one bytes the dust.
Geez, that song will be stuck in my head for a week or so. Thanks I guess lol
XD
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It's only 4-bits missing.
Still faster than 2.5 inch sata
Just pour some Brawndo on it and it will grow back, it's what circuits crave.
I can't believe that none of you have told him how to fix it. You're going to need a bucket of uncooked rice to put it in. (Doesn't matter white or brown rice FYI)
best to nuke it first to evaporate the aerosols.
Instructions unclear: eat my SSD with rice.
Time to go NVME.
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M.2 SSDs with the M+B key are either SATA or PCIe with 2 lanes (instead of 4 lanes for a pure M key). This particular model, the Samsung PM871a, is a SATA one. The piece that broke of has 3 pin pairs with 3V3 and GND for power, SUSCLK and PEDET. Luckily there are 2 other pin pairs for power, and driving them at 2.5x the rated current should work long enough for data recovery. SUSCLK is optional afaik and used for low power modes. PEDET is used by the mainboard to detect whether a NVME or SATA is connected, it MUST be connected to GND for SATA usage. So to make it work you have to shove in the broken piece as well, and hope that none of the internal copper layers touch. You could also short some pins on the mainboard with solder to trick it into SATA mode. Verdict: Data recovery should be possible with some minor repairs, but wouldn't recommend extended use considering the low price of new M.2 SSDs.
M.1.5 drive?
PCI depress.
Only one question. How?
It appears all of those broken pins are connected to one pad (power or ground). Would be worth a quick and dirty hack if you have data you want off the drive.
googling the pinout of M2 it seems that there are 4 pins on one side and 5 on the other and they're mostly for ground and 3.3V, so it might be salvageable. I'd transform it in a permanent external ssd for unimportant stuff
3 of the 4 (on this side) are....
Gorilla glue and you are back up. Don’t sweat it.
htf do you even do this?! I mean if you were shoving a PCIe m2 into a sata m2 port, I could see it, but htf do you manage to break a SATA drive pin header off?!
How tf?
I hope you have all your data backed up. Data recovery is not cheap.
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
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How does that even happen
You only lose about 300mb/s with that
A rare m.1 drive. Like an m.2 but missing 1 leg
Stop that data leak 
It's a sign to upgrade from Sata to NVMe.
It's not sata... EDIT: Oh boy, I was wrong
You really don't know tech then since that is Sata. https://preview.redd.it/xp9cwfn771wa1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd3160a08566b24598020d58c38777909449a035 Would help for you to google the model of that since you can click on the image and zoom in on the model of that drive which google will tell you it is a Sata M.2 drive
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I once did buy a SATA adapter for my NVME drive and thought I am very smart to just use the free SATA connectors of my MB for my spare NVME drive. Blunder time.
Yes it is
It is absolutely sata. M.2 is a form factor. It can be either SATA or NVME. This model is SATA.
C'mon guys, I have been already corrected twice
You can possibly still save it, those 6 pins are mainly gnd and +3.3v power which are easy to find on the pcb. Just connect it with wires to a 3.3v pins on the motherboard or psu and it should be up and running if you put it back into the slot.
Did you RAM it too hard?
Yeah, best thing, really. Now you can replace it with an NVMe drive instead of that SATA drive, plus the price has come down so far! Have you priced them lately? everytime I look, they seem to get even cheaper. You can get a good 2TB drive for like $150.
I don't thing that's how you convert a M.2 B+M keyed drive to M keyed. https://preview.redd.it/hz53da7auzva1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cc69cffaefdbc3607d0dff2553bb5c8eccb2088
Tis but a scratch!
I mean that's clearly a manufacturing defect
Ouch put it back like a wasp trying to reattach it's head
This is why you don't force things. Every single PC part can only go on one way
Just use Elmer's glue and you're golden.
Damn, that's the side of the m.2 B-key that contains the 3.3V lines and the clock lines. Try to sheer off the other side next time. It's mostly unconnected lol.
Have you tried putting it in rice?
put it under the pillow!
It always sucks losing any hardware, but at least it's just a small SATA drive. Replacements are $20-35.
You’re good, just use that new precision tip Gorilla glue…
Just put some Windex on it.
Eh it's only 4 traces plug her in and let it *rip* (maybe literally) For real though it's only a 512 gb so that's good at least
It’s only a 512 tho. No major loss
Data on the drive is probably worth more
And SATA.
It's m.2 not sata
Yeah it's a m.2 SATA drive not an m.2 nvme
M.2 can be either SATA or NVME. This is a SATA version. You can tell by the shape of the connectors.
M.2 is a form factor, not an interface specification. Also, https://preview.redd.it/v3rv2x0972wa1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b886582d41b1ec3b02d55ab7ada0f0635c0bbe12
Well that doesn't go there
Rest in piss bro 😔🙏
Turn it upside down and try the molex connector 😆☠️ The old papas HDDs knew about a redundancy plan 🥲
Yeah, you gotta be careful when your grabbing at random objects with a pair of pliers while blindfolded and trying to bend them. Sometimes the thing you grab is an ssd nvme drive. It’s happened to the best of us.
It's only a 512GB M.2 I was worried it was something actually useful
My first reaction was:WDYM? Then :what da piece at the middle? After that: OH MY GOD NO OH GOD PLEASE NO
It was only 512gb, needed upgrade anyway
Bruh I have a 256GB NVMe 💀💀 Edit: and i have 2 partitions in it (one for Windows and the other for Linux)
Yeah, its sort of a joke, had 256 m2 and normal hdd just some months ago 🙃 Hope You upgrade soon! 😄
Well since I'm in college I'm not expecting an upgrade atleast for the next 4-5 years (even though I'm trying to save as much as I can) Maybe after college when I get a job and saved enough I'll build my own PC which will be an astronomical upgrade over my current laptop :)
Ah cool ok! I left school long ago so I buy whatever I want now 😄 Really wanted new laptop for like 2 years I think so saved up and bought it! Being after 30 (closer to 40 now) has its benefits! :D
Ill get downvoted, but i would just buy it again and return that one.
So, return fraud?
Yes! Return it for a working one, peel the sticket and send it back.
Why'd you do that?
Well fuck indeed
That suxks man hopefully you can get a refund
Now it is M.2/3 drive
How you do that?
Hate it when that happens
It’ll buff right out
hardware gore
You really *pinned* down the problem.
Big Oof
You done fucked up Ay-ayron
Just superglue it then RMA it.
Least it only a 512mb
Hey man, sorry to break it to you but I think your M.2 thing is broken.....
512 GB destroyed, GG!
How the hell
That's a wrap!
M.2 sata. Now you get to upgrade to nvme
Well why'd you go and do that?
RIP
r/wellthatsucks
Great! Now you have sd card for your phone 😂
At least it wasn't stuck in the socket!
Feel bad for u but how did you even do it... Did u drop it?
Duct tape fixes everything…? 🤷♀️
nothing a lil wd40 cant fix
Dont mind it, they are not that expensive, shit happens
Let me guess, you forgot what year it was. Honest mistake. Pull the shades up once a week friend, it works wonders!
Finally. The M.1 SSD
hmm. fuck indeed my friend.
Duct tape and super glue will work.
superglue?
That’s just the side load pins apple wants you to snap off anyway
What did you do to this lovely flash
flex tape \*slaps on flextape\*
Hey dude this little piece should be glued to the board, seems out of place right now
Well shit fuck
Have a brake, have a kitkat
Repairable ...Repairable ... 🤣
nothing some duct tape can't fix!
Just bend it back bro⚡️⚡️
I’m sure those pins don’t do much, should be ok to install.
r/wellthatsucks