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Hi, Friends, My Retina MacBook 2015 accedently went broken, the guys in Apple Store tell me the logic board is bad(don’t know the reason, they only do replaycement, I guess the SSD is good till now), now I need to restore some important data from the soldered SSD. It’s somewhat an impossible mission to unsolder it. Any idea on this? Does logic board of this type, could pin out some hidden interface like SATA to access the SSD? or some debug pins to achive this? Thanks! Quincy
Sadly, as we drive the size of systems smaller, the ability to get to the storage subsystem as an independent part is becoming harder or just impossible. Unlike the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air systems which have a removable SSD units that is not the case in the new MacBook models. Here is a picture of the logic board so you can see for your self: MacBook Logic Board the Orange block is the SSD unit. There is no means to remove it and even if you could desolder it there is no means to connect it to another system to read whats on it. The same issue applies to ones cell phones and tablets which have likewise soldered flash memory chips. With these closed systems it’s becoming more important to have backup drives or use iCloud services to store your files as you never know when they will fail. Sorry you’re out of luck here ;-{
Www.AppleExpert.ca in Calgary do offer a service of getting data off an SSD on an A 1534 broken logic board.
