I have been using a Corsair Force 3 (120GB) SSD
since last 1.5 years.
Yesterday, the laptop freezed suddenly and I had to hard reset it.
Then it refused to boot as if no HDD was installed. This has happened earlier a couple of times. Usually, after a restart it used to work like normal but yesterday even after a few restarts the BIOS won't detect the HDD. I connected it to a different computer using USB to SATA converter and it still won't get detected.
From what it seems, the controller has gone kaput but there are chances that the data is still intact. I just need to confirm if what I am thinking is right. Also, is there any way I can purchase an exactly similar SSD and swap the controller / memory chips ? I know this would require some BGA level soldering but I can give that a try.