I was intrigued by the topic title and even more by the topic content
Went through a love/hate moment when the SSD in my Alu 12 was giving me troubles booting and preparing/testing the replacement (working+supporting sleep) was littered with setbacks including the suicide of my Ti HDD ribbon cable (nothing happen anymore in the regular position and some signs of power but no detection when rotated over the motherboard). When I saw the price of used ribbon cables and no Chinese clones, I was thinking almost ready to give up thinking "I am done with this!".
Now that the Alu has its new SSD, I will maybe try and keep the Ti some extended life through firewire and possibly a motherboard swap but no internal HDD/SSD does not bode well for its future (maybe it will become a organ donor in another Ti's home...).
(Sorry for the rant but spending a week with damages to do what should take a day without damages is always deeply frustrating).
Does anyone know a resuscitation trick for Ti HDD ribbon cables ?