Bad idea to bake mini PCIe hard drive?

[KiwiHoshi]

So, I was reading about baking hard drives to "fix" them.

I am wondering, can you do this with mini PCIe hard drives?

Just a last resort idea if my ssd is officially dead.

 

[skit75]

Umm no.

Just don't do it.

I can smell desperation in your post. Be it a SSD or HDD.... just don't do it.

 

[USAFRet]

So, I was reading about baking hard drives to "fix" them.

I am wondering, can you do this with mini PCIe hard drives?

Just a last resort idea if my ssd is officially dead.

So, what's wrong with this thing?
How did you arrive at the conclusion that 'baking it' might cure its woes?
And what drive is this? Make/model, please.

 

[rgd1101]

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3053231/dell-inspiron-mini-910-operating-system.html
Fixed HDD: STEC PATA 32GB-(PM)

 

[tsnor]

For a generation of spinning drives there were "stiction" problems where the spinning disk could not spin up because lube on the disk collected on the read head and glued the disk platter frozen. Heating these drives with a hair dryer could often get them going. It would not help an SSD though. And I wouldn't do this to any modern drive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiction http://www.burgessforensics.com/article_myths.php

 

[KiwiHoshi]

Sorry, I never replied. Ultimately, I decided it's probably better not to do it...chemical smells and all. I would have been trying it with a hard drive that I didn't really care about. I don't remember where...but in a forum online somewhere, I read that you could slightly bake your hard drive at a very low temp to "reset it". I'm guessing the idea came from what @tsnor said above.