Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:01PM
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I've done it myself, save restoring pads -- to me it's just the sort of fiddly, finnickety thing that it seems like robots sold be good at. And, they're not going to burn their fingers or run out of hands to hold things!
Re:Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us
by PeterisP on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:49PM
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Robots are good at repetitive tasks and economy of scale. Doing a tricky action for ten thousand boards is something that robots are good at; doing a different tricky action on each of a hundred boards is not.
It doesn't seem plausible to have a business case where you'd get be able to get a large quantity of identical boards (that are otherwise good!), replace caps on them, and be able to sell them for much more than you got them - i.e. that the boards haven't become obsolete in that time. If there's no mass production, there's not much use for automation.
there's a reason companies don't repair circuit boards in consumer electronics.