Is my SSD bad?

2.5" SATA 1TB Samsung 860 evo. I originally bought it for a laptop ~6 months ago. Laptop experienced a hardware failure (either bad SATA controller or bad connectors from drive bays to controller I believe - can give more info on the symptoms of that failure if you think its relavent) I've since replaced the laptop and installed the SSD in my son's desktop. The problem now is, whenever his desktop experiences a loss of power (power outage or hard shut down to change a HW component, etc) the SSD will fail to boot after powering back up, has happened twice now. I can recover all of the data from another PC, but the partitions are recognized by disk part as "raw". I can boot in to the recovery environment from the drive but all recovery options fail. So far recovering data manually and then using the "clean" function in disk part and then starting over with a clean install has been my only available course of action. After that, the drive works perfectly and has no issue with normal W10 shut down and start up, and restart actions. It is only a total loss of power.

Is this SSD toast? Did the laptop failure damage the drive? Or maybe conversely could a bad SSD cause a HW failure in the laptop?

I ordered a GPU upgrade for my son but I wont be home to help him install it. This will be his first time making a upgrade on his own(11 yo) and I'm worried he'll run in to a huge problem if the SSD wont boot when he's finished. I'm also out of town working now, so troubleshooting the drive directly isnt possible until this weekend (I know, not ideal to be posting without active access to the HW)

Any thoughts or speculations would be appreciated.

If it went raw it means it lost the partition table and specific partition recovery normally gets it back with all data. Sudden power off will cause problems that is normal software from makers site can normally test the drive and tell you if it's ok

Samuria said:

If it went raw it means it lost the partition table and specific partition recovery normally gets it back with all data. Sudden power off will cause problems that is normal software from makers site can normally test the drive and tell you if it's ok

It isnt just sudden or unexpected power loss. It is any power loss at all, including proper W10 shut down and subsequent unplugging.

There are 2 seperate things a faulty hd has bad block that is hardware damage disk errors like loosing files parition is file system errors with a healthy drive. The makers disk check is the way to go as that will tell you if there hardware errors