Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
Soldered on the power connector today. I am afraid the SSD stays in the busy state permanently
You mean you cannot get the SSD to be recognized by the BIOS and to mount the filesystem in Windows?

That is what I expected (although I hoped otherwise). I guess that is what Samsung 470s do when their flash is not only worn out for writing, but also worn out for storing and readback. It makes sense, I suppose, since the index of LBA to flash address must be stored on flash, and if it cannot read the flash, it cannot load its index, so it cannot do anything.

Feel free to run any experiments you can think of, including destructive ones.