Well, sorry to add to your misery, I can tell you that the last rig I worked on a few weeks ago, had the same drive in it, and was brought to me because it suddenly failed to boot, seemingly for no reason.....
I went thru a few hours of...
I remember what some folks at work used to say fairly often:
"You smoke, you die"
"You smoke near your pc, it dies, then you die too"
If you must smoke while using your pc, then do it a favor & go outside, or at least go into a different room &...
Your right.
She had the pc in a back room where she raised Grate Danes that had open access to a dirt backyard. Made me wanna puke everytime I went over there.
I had that issue too, and discovered what was causing it, at least part of it anyways:
Every single app is set as100% active all the time, with all background processes running wide open with all permissions on by default, and no limits...
As with most things 'puter-related, the usual advice applies:
If you NEED it now, buy it now...if not, then don't & wait, but by Q4/25, more newer betta stuff will be out or forthcoming in 26-27, so then you will be right back in the same place...