Fixing sata HDD
 

I recently broke of a sata connector from my hard disk. Luckily the connections remained. So I had to fix it:



And to secure it:

nice "mod" :D

Then, RMA the drive after you backup the data or OS if it is still possible?
One of mine broke, I was thinking about doing the same thing and not sure if RMA would work. I sent it back without doing anything instead.