shouldn't be sticking ssd's up your ass, pal

That's about all it's good for until I fix the plug

@timsandtoms is it warrantied? Maybe the manufacturer will replace the SSD or recover your data, or both

Nah, it's old. But it's free if I can fix it, and 120GB is big enough to throw a couple of games on for fast load times.

Only free if your time is worthless, fren

...it's one connector

It takes like two minutes

And how long have you spent looking for the connector? Punk ass 😏

I mean... I mostly do it while staring at game loading screens. Which I'd eliminate with a faster drive.

It might be drive specific so good luck lmao

@Matthew yeah, because there's the drive controller and whatnot

Is the data important?

Nah, just my dad's Windows and WoW install

Have you considered burning it out clean and laying a new connection line?

I have not, wouldn't know how to.

Clean out the wrecked part with a knife or maybe a pointy solder iron depending on how much of a savage you are

Lay a new line with some silver cord or demanteled cable

And fry your pc in progress

Just scrap that drive

Is it that risky? What about if I put it in a toaster?

that the power side. just hard wire it

What's all the hype with YeeLights?

home automation

with stuff like IFTTT and such

also their price:performance ration is decent

and as far as i know they dont need to call home like shitty stuff competitors have (aka LAN-control)

(somebody correct me on that one if im wrong)

eh

you need to jump through a few hoops to get lan control

You gotta be real stupid to fry your Pc with a data port tbh.

@timsandtoms search for sata backplane

for some reason they use that a lot

Even with LAN control they phone home

yeah that's why i said some hoops to jump through

by what i mean the thing works even if you have the app firewalled

but yeah i dont own those so i cant say for sure

Yes that works.

But for some reason, if you have it turn on with a schedule (made with the yeelight app), it may fail to turn on if firewalled

So yeah you lose some functionality

Though if you have LAN control, you can just do all that with a cron