Just to ask for opinion from you guys. I owned an Asus S56CM ultrabook for about 2 years when lately my laptop starts to behave weirdly. It can't shut down properly. The screen went black/blank as it was shutting down but the LED lights/cooling fan still running and will running till the battery exhausted or i push the power button for 3 seconds (force shutdown). Moreover, all the USB port cannot be used unless i insert the USB drive/external HD right before i switch on the laptop.

I received error message from windows "Windows detected a hard disk problem. The following hard disks are reporting failure: SanDisk SSD i1200 24GB" which when i tried to access in the device manager will just made the explorer/windows not responding. From what i read, the SSD is not for storage but rather some speed-up technology/express cache or something like that for faster boot and shutdown.

Is the SSD failure is the root of all my problems? Is there any chance for it to be fixed as i am aware the SSD was not manufactured anymore. Thank in advance.