Hello everyone. I recently broke two SSDs in an apparently identical way, and I don’t know why.

I have a Zimaboard to which I connected with the official Y cable two SSDs on the SATA ports. I installed an M2 SSD in the pcie slot where I installed Proxmox, and created a ZFS pool (in mirror) with the two Sata SSDs.

The disk 1 of the pool, which still works, is a Silicon Power A55 SLC of 512GB.

Disk 2 of the pool was a 512GB Verbatim Vi550 S3.

I noticed recently that the Verbatim had become unavailable a couple of months ago. It no longer appeared in the list of available disks, nor in the outputs of the lsblk command. I also tried to connect it to a USB-Sata adapter (which works properly with other disks) and the situation has not changed.

Thinking it had burned, I decided to order a new SSD from another brand. I chose an Intenso. I connected it to Zimaboard and it was immediately recognized, so I added it to the ZFS pool and tried to resilver it to align the data. The operation produced a log in which many write errors were reported. Once the Zimaboard restarted, the new disk was also unavailable and I was unable to use it.

I’d like to ask your opinion on this.

1. Why did the Verbatim and the Intense break, apparently in the same way? Is this a matter of disk incompatibility for use in a ZFS pool? I started to assume that the Y-cable I’m using is defective.

2. Do you think there is a way to make these SSDs usable again? I find it difficult to think that they have finally broken down for a simple resilvering operation.

Thank you for your support.

PS I’m not sure this is the right subreddit for this topic. I apologize if I went off topic.

Regards!