SSD stopped working

[Rystal]

My second SSD that I installed around two months ago had been doing totally fine but a few days ago uninstalled half the games I had installed on it, and then the other half later in the day and then it disappeared completely from file explorer. After that I tried swapping the SATA and power supply cables from the SSD, switched the SATA port that it was going into with every other available one in my pc, but it seems like it has just stopped working and I don’t know how to fix it. Also my original SSD that I installed with the PC has never had any problems like this ever and is still working totally fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

PC specs

CPU; AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor 3.85 GHz

GPU; Gigabyte Radeon RX 570 Gaming 4GB Video Card

Motherboard; MSI B450M PRO-VDH PLUS AM4 M-ATX Motherboard

RAM; Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x 8GB) DDR4 3000MHz Memory Black

Original SSD: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" SATA III 6GB/s V-NAND SSD MZ-76E500BW

Bad SSD: Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5" 3D NAND SATA III SSD with 9.5mm adapter

[Bruce]

have you put that dodgy SSD into another PC or into an external enclosure and seen if it can be detected then?
if not, the unit has died - rare but it does happen.
that’s why we backup and why we pay for warranty.

[Rystal]

yeah I tried it just then and it wasn’t detected at all - looks like the ssd has died
I’ll order an rma to fix it
thanks for your help

[Bruce]

I’ll close this now.
feel free to open another thread if your situation changes. (y)