“I can’t handle people disagreeing with me, so I ban them from my personal echo-chamber”

There’s plenty of legitimate reasons to dislike Linux. Whatever you’ve got going on goes way past anything even vaguely resembling a legitimate complaint and straight to obsessive compulsive behavior.

This is what I think is most likely as well. The capacity on the drive makes me think it’s a SSD and they can just spontaneously fail.

This is why you always need backups. It’s never a question of if, but rather when a drive will fail.