I had fun with a miserable SSD recently.
For work, I had a computer come in that I ordered from Amazon (OEM machine with OS pre-installed) whereby upon first logging in and starting up Windows Updates, it froze up or something. I didn't know what happened, exactly... except that the black screen when I noticed a problem, showed as if it was trying to boot up and there was no bootable drive installed. I assumed a bsod, but had no idea, exactly.
I fought with this machine for a few days where it seemed like it worked, and I'd install various programs, etc, but then when I had my back turned, it crashed or something and would be sitting on the no bootable device screen. I never saw the crash, never saw a blue screen, but I saw that there was an obvious problem, and I saw the resulting symptom of that problem probably a dozen times (the no bootable device screen) and eventually, I replaced cables, etc with no success.
At one point, I even tried powering the SSD from an entirely different computer's power supply all Frankenstein style with two machines sitting side-by-side, and it still would crash or whatever it was doing.
Finally, I just bit for bit copied the SSD the computer came with to a new SSD (thankfully it didn't crash in that time window) and I've never had a problem with the machine since with it running on the new SSD. The 240GB SSD wore a green wrap that said "inland professional SSD" and it had read/write speeds and a few other misc infos.
I really needed a rig up and running for someone to use like *now*, so I didn't really have a "send it back" kind of option. Anyway, this SSD just sits to the side now. Maybe one of the stranger things I've seen in recent times with hardware.