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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1910665" data-attributes="member: 83420">I'm really sorry to hear that.  You have worked very hard and followed advice.  Good on you.But, as I said in post #2, it does very much look like your SSD is failing for whatever reason(s).  It's only a 7 year old Mac, but sad to say, that's way out of warranty and likely beyond payed-for repair/servicing by Apple.As Rod said in post #7, you've had a fair deal out of that SSD and having it near-to-fool at times won't have helped either.Replacing the SSD is the cheaper way to go and the Mac itself will run Monterey, so there's life in this Mac yet - quite a lot actually.The alternative is a new Mac, but we are all very conscious of the financial consequences which are often quite beyond a person's circumstances. Good luck with your future plans.Ian</blockquote>