Some routine maintenence and losing your balance while holding a hard drive and ripping the cord out breaking the retainer for the connectors… 4tb Samsung ssd RIP
You might still be able to use it if you carefully superglue back the plastic part.
A more permanent fix would be to replace the SATA connector and solder a new one by someone with the proper skillset.
The important parts are still in good shape, don’t throw it away!
Having all pins present, I wouldn’t be surprised if the drive still gets detected while bending a SATA cable back juuuuuust right so its connector makes contact with the pins.
Steady hand with a soldering iron and that could be salvaged, good luck!
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First step, you need to enlist. A soldiering iron will be issued to you, there will be many like it, but that one will be yours…
It’s really easy. I have be soldering to repair my own guitars since I was like 12. Watch an instructional video on the internet, practice with some spare wires and circuit boards. You can learn in an hour or two.
Problem for most people isn’t going to be the act of soldering. It’s going to be acquiring a soldering station and some solder to work with. If you intend to use it multiple times it’s not bad at all. For a one-and-done situation it’s best to just pay someone else to do it with their equipment or buy a new SSD entirely.
ymmv with this, but it looks like a mostly ok jank fix. Those adapters won’t be expensive. https://youtube.com/shorts/yVV9Ip92ffg
I can fix that for you if you ship it to me
I did this to a PNY drive once and they RMAd it for me! I was up front and said it was 100% my fault and I had already had it for a few years. If you’ve got a laptop that has a mounted slot you can probably slide it in to get any data you need off of it
