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Re: SSD external hard disk corrupted contain 70 BTC~!
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BASE16
on 17/01/2021, 17:13:51 UTC
Guys thanks for the comments

I found this company

https://www.acelaboratory.com/pc3000-ssd.php


This may work ?

No this will not work because those are targeted at PCIe SSD and yours is different from that.
And even if it worked you can use Gnome Disks (which is free) to pull an extended S.M.A.R.T report.
But like i said this will only work if the firmware still boots and the drive still communicates with the SATA interface bus.

If your hardware is damaged you will have to pull the raw data from each of the chips one by one.
But i do not think this is the case i have rarely ever seen this.

You did not tell much about how this problem arise.
Maybe the drive was full, some drives cycles sectors to extend lifetime and if there is a problem the firmware will lock the drive and prevent read write access.
Or maybe you live in a country that has a dirty mains electricity with many spikes present, for example when you are living close to some industrial area where there are factories that operate huge motors that fire spikes and over voltage back into the mains lines, of course such events can damage your sensitive computer equipment.

You can examine the circuit board most usually have a small fuse, if it's possible for you to find the datasheet you can examine the levels of the components with a voltmeter.
Many times the components are numbered C1 R6 F1 D5 or Q8 and etc. You can see C stands for Capacitor, R stands for Resistor and F stands for Fuse D is Diode and Q is a Transistor or IC.

Normally there is only one Fuse so that would be F1 and it is placed right after the power plug where the power enters the circuit board. You can check this Fuse with a voltmeter on the resistor or Ohm setting if it shows 0.00 the Fuse is good if it shows OL or OPEN LOOP then the Fuse is bad and it most likely saved the rest of the hardware when it burned through. Then you have to replace the fuse and the thing will come back to life again. If you have doubts about any of this then do not make any attempt or action and first study and look at examples until you feel comfortable to dive in.
 
Those are just some examples of what could be wrong. We do not know the current condition of the drive whether it still communicates of is a 100% dead. So if you really want useful advice we would have to know a bit more about the current status of the device.