I have a Mushkin Reactor 1TB SSD that was reportedly in great health, showing no indicators pointing to imminent failure (as reported by HDD Sentinel) that my PC would no longer boot into last week. Wouldn't show up in BIOS, so I took it out and hooked it up externally to another system. It wasn't recognized (nothing in Disk Mgmt, Device Mgr). As you can see on the right side of the picture below, a red light on the board of the SSD comes on when power is applied:
Even though this light makes me think it's getting power, I want to post an image of the power connector, as I wonder if the missing gold-plating might be part of the issue?
Otherwise, any thoughts as to why this drive suddenly won't be recognized?
Even though this light makes me think it's getting power, I want to post an image of the power connector, as I wonder if the missing gold-plating might be part of the issue?
Otherwise, any thoughts as to why this drive suddenly won't be recognized?