M.2 bugging out

[DemandedGoblin]

Hi so ive had my 2tb samsung 970 evo ssd for about 18 months and use it currently for only, Smite (small moba), elden ring and genshin impact so not a lot. Today whilst on my computer i was playing genshin and it randomly closed so presumed random crash so tried to reopen a number of times and crashed so thought must be the servers so went to go play smite and it said it wasnt installed despite my steam library showing from that ssd on steam there was now nothing in this. So a quick restart later same issue, i restart again and check in the bios and it says that nothing is being detected in the m.2 bay so restarted again and now seems to be fixed however bit concerned about what the issue might have been and how to prevent it happening again. Also havent opened up my computer in at least a month so feel like nothing has changed externally

 

Any help or ideas is much appreciated thanks

[Veehxia]

Try to run some CrystalDiskMark on your SSD and look in Task Manager if your SSD's response time is skyrocketing.

Mine was going in the >1s response time range before dying.
Dont know where you are from but in my country 18 months is still valid for RMA.