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My old macbook died due to a water spillage but my friend has a working, identical macbook (A1466) that she no longer uses. What potential problems might I run into if I replace the working macbook’s SSD with the dead one’s to try to read the data? The current situation is:

  1. I am not sure if the SSD sustained water damage and if it still works
  2. Some chinese guy I found on wechat claimed that he has done what I am trying to do before, and has successfully recovered the data Now, the whole point of this endeavour is to save a few bucks. I know of the existence of SSD-to-USB enclosures and computer repairers, but they’ll likely cost me $AUD70-100. I want to do this myself first before I sink this amount of money.

Just to clarify: The A1466 covers a lot of different MacBook Airs. To be sure plug in your systems S/N as well as your friends here: EveryMac - Lookup If your system is the same then theres a good chance to salvage your data. Before you install it you might want to look it over for any staining or corrosion. If you do use some distilled water to on a cotton swab (Q-Tip) to wipe it off. Do be careful as the small SMT components can be pulled off.