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You're probably better off talking to Samsung and seeing if you can get a warranty replacement, or just buying an entirely new drive and slapping some kind of basic cooling solution on it.

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take it to an electronics store. they should be able to identify what it is and often a replacment. many companies outsource components and it might just be an off the shelf component that Samsung themselves even buy in Bulk.

the small letter between the A and the D look like an identifier as it looks to me far more like a japanese character than a letter t 

if it were a letter t they could have simply used ATDB7

3 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

You're probably better off talking to Samsung and seeing if you can get a warranty replacement, or just buying an entirely new drive and slapping some kind of basic cooling solution on it.

agreed but i am assuming he has data on the drive that needs to be recovered otherwise the latest price driops on many older gen ssds are so cheap it makes the effort almost pointless.

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6 minutes ago, johnno23 said:

agreed but i am assuming he has data on the drive that needs to be recovered otherwise the latest price driops on many older gen ssds are so cheap it makes the effort almost pointless.

Right, I'd almost just say "get any important data off that you can" and say screw it. Even new SSDs are pretty cheap by now.

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Easiest way would be to get another Samsung 870, swap the IC, check those ceramic capacitors in case they're shorted as well, and recover your data

 

You didn't post the whole board so I can't really tell much, but I suspect it's a linear regulator or a synchronous buck regulator (though I don't see an inductor close to the chip in your pictures) that lowers 5v from the sata power connector to lower voltage like 2.5v or 1.8v.

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