Failsafe power management to avoid short-circuiting from water damage in solid state drive using conductivity detector

A data storage device, comprising:

• a non-volatile memory (NVM) array mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB);
• a resistive strip mounted to the PCB;
• a conductivity detector coupled to the resistive strip;
• and
• one or more processors configured, individually or in combination, to:
• receive signals from the conductivity detector indicating whether an amount of metal ions in a liquid touching the resistive strip exceeds an impurity threshold;
• deactivate a power supply of the data storage device in response to the amount of metal ions in the liquid exceeding the impurity threshold;
• and
• reactivate the power supply in response to the amount of metal ions in the liquid subsequently no longer exceeding the impurity threshold.

A data storage device, comprising:

• means for detecting aqueous metal ions within the data storage device;
• means determining whether the aqueous metal ions exceed an impurity threshold;
• means for deactivating a power supply of the data storage device in response to the aqueous metal ions exceeding the impurity threshold;
• and
• means for reactivating the power supply in response to the aqueous metal ions no longer exceeding the impurity threshold.