The amount of data we can store on computers has been increasing ever since, well, computers were invented. However, there comes a point where you can have too much information, and a PC can't ...

2TB SSDs are quickly turning into a luxury commodity.

Kind of hard to do that when the system wouldn't POST with the bad SSD installed. OP doesn't seem to have been able to try the SSD in a USB enclosure, but then says they checked for firmware updates ...