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Mid-2012 Macbook Air 11.6" A1406 256GB M.2… I removed the SSD from an unknown-condition MBA 11.6", Mid-2012. It boots to a question mark, so I pulled the SSD and it has pale-red moisture sensors. I assume it’s gotten wet. Would liquid kill this SSD so that it wouldn’t even show up at all in a drive enclosure plugged into another Mac? I plugged it in, unplugged, then loaded Disk Utility wherein there was no SSD to see. One odd thing is how long Disk Utility took to load. So maybe it sees something, but can’t load it? I also tried Drive Genius 4: NADA! I removed it from the enclosure, then cleaned it using 99.9% Tech Grade Isopropyl Alcohol. Dried it then repeated the exercise, again, NADA. I assume this drive is dead? Anything else to do other than add it to my Xmas tree? Thanks! JoeL Atlanta
So, after a few hours in the Envoy enclosure, I get a light, but no mount. I am going to dry it slowly to see if that helps, but it’s been drying on my shelf for a week now, in a sealed box with desiccant, so I’m not sanguine about the result. I don’t see anyone suggesting online that SSD data recovery is as successful even as spinning HDs although I don’t see anything really definitive on this. It’s a different animal entirely I assume and probably pricier. I tried my own tools, such as they are, but it’s not showing up so I can’t apply any fix to a device I can’t see. Thanks for the responses, I was trying to get a sense if water would KILL an SSD dead like that although I should have just known that it could given the havoc liquids can wreak on logic boards. It’s not like SSDs have some special water-proof coating . . . although that’s not the worst idea ever! JoeL
