Ritchie Geissler wrote:
I would be surprised if your SSD had completely died as you suspect
SSDs can die just like any computer part and while they lack mechanical failure modes (except bad soldering) they have whole load of new electronic ways to fail compared to HDDs.
Especially many SandForce controller based SSDs have been prone to all kind of problems because they all use basically same controller maker's firmware with same bugs. (apparently Intel is only one having own firmware for SandForce controllers)
OCZ has used those controllers lot.. and also Verbatim uses SandForce controllers so if its firmware wasn't latest it might do about anything from errors to bricking itself.
SSDs are still maturing tech.
Even Samsung had serious bug in pre-production disk firmware.
AnandTech | Samsung Explains The Firmware Bug Causing The Failures of SSD 840/840 Pro