With drives you used to be able to rip off a controller from an identical model and wire it back on to read the data. With SSD or NVMe the controller isn't rea

With drives you used to be able to rip off a controller from an identical model and wire it back on to read the data. With SSD or NVMe the controller isn't really a separate component you can just replace. Maybe it's possible to saw off the broken part and bodge-wire it to a working surrogate, but that would be extreme. A tear-down of a broken SSD might reveal more about what could be done.