PNY CS1030 250GB NVMe bricked after PCIe ToolBox firmware update

Hello everyone,

I have a PNY CS1030 250 GB NVMe SSD that was bricked during a firmware update using the official PNY PCIe ToolBox v2.9. The update succeeded, and when I rebooted, it no longer works.

I attached a log of Phison Flash ID and also old logs when the NVMe was working from CrystalDiskInfo (I didn’t have prior knowledge of the Flash ID tool).

Any help is appreciated!

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AI: when you say it “no longer works”, what exactly happens now — is the SSD detected in BIOS/UEFI or Windows at all, does it show the correct model/capacity, or does it come up with any specific error / as a Phison ROM device?
the SSD is detected as PHISON PS5013-E13 in Windows and BIOS and it shows up with 250 GB in the name of it
AI: what system is this in (motherboard/laptop model OS), was the CS1030 your boot drive or a secondary drive, and have you tried it in another M.2 slot or another PC/USB NVMe adapter to see how it is detected there?
Specs:
Asrock b450m-hdv r4.0, Windows 11, Ryzen 5600X, RTX 4060, GSkill Trident Z RGB 2x8
the CS1030 was my boot drive, detected the same in other PC

Is this about repairing the drive or recovering the data?

>>21877102

About repairing the drive, the data was of no importance.

Quote:

The PNY CS1030 line of SSDs (2021) is available from 250GB to 2TB.
Beneath the product label are the Phison PS5013-E13-31 and four NAND packages. This is a DRAM-less drive and relies on Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology to mitigate the lack of a DRAM cache. The NAND on the CS1030 appears to come from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) and is TLC.

p.s
You have a strange FW ver
- pNY website cannot find https://www.pny.com/company/support/portable-ssd-firmware-updates

CS1030-500GB is Link_ FW: CS103F00



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