Had my Intel D3-S4510 fail on me this morning. Was trying to play Bonelab on my Oculus and it froze my machine (which is pretty common with Oculus) and required a hard reboot. Came back on and it booted to bios. Neat. Went to boot from my usual SSD and got the typical 'boot device not found' text. Neat! Threw a copy of Win 10 on a bootable USB to get to recovery command prompt and try Bootrec. Bootrec /Scanos finds zero installations. NEAT! Try fixmbr and fixboot anyway but that was pointless.

Went to best buy to get some bullshit SSD to throw windows on and here we are. Crystal Disk Info finds the drive but takes forever and can't give me any other info beyond the name of the device, firmware, serial. Device manager sees the drive but when I check out the volumes and hit 'populate' status is coming up as "not initialized"

I did think this drive would be a little harder to kill since it is maybe 2 years old and is a $400 enterprise drive. I suppose I could have tried wiping it and reinstalling windows to it but when I went to do that there was some error along the lines of "cannot install windows here, this drive may fail soon"

I think this is the third SSD i've killed in the past 5 years, they all seem to handle power loss very poorly. Makes me long for the days of disk platter HDDs where I could hear the failure coming for a few months.

Anyway, is there some kind of treatment algorithm I follow to see if this drive is worth saving? Recovering the data would be wonderful, salvaging the drive would be good, total loss would be not surprising. Considering I can't even get a volume to populate I'm guessing I'm screwed.

I guess a secondary question would be, is there a particular SSD that is more forgiving toward power loss? enterprise vs. consumer, nvme vs SATA, particular brands, etc.