Originally Posted by
johnw
First, see if you can read anything on the filesystem at all. Just before I broke the SATA power connector, I was unable to get the BIOS to even recognize the SSD. It reached write exhaustion on 2011-Aug-20, but I was still able to read files from it. Then I left it unpowered for a month, and tried to read it again, but the BIOS would not recognize the drive. I fiddled with it a little with no luck, then when I was trying to get it recognized on another computer was when the SATA power connector broke.
The idea was originally to check the MD5 of the ~40GB file on the SSD every month for a year, since consumer SSDs are supposed to be able to retain data, unpowered, for a year after write exhaustion. It seemed like the Samsung did not even last a month, but it would be good for you to double check. If you do manage to mount the file system read-only, then please compute an MD5 checksum on the ~40GB file.
If you are unable to mount the filesystem at all, then you can proceed with whatever tests you would like to try.