I should add, that I did check the SMART data and every check passed with OK.
I did find an older and smaller SSD. As soon as any piece of hardware is suspect, (from a network cable to a drive) I usually trash it immediately. So, this spare I found should be good, but I don’t remember where I got it from either.
Guess what … I get the same ‘Read error’ message after booting to a fresh install of PureOS on that spare drive.
Odds are high then that this issue is NOT the disk, but I can’t be certain. The spare disk might have had an issue too.
Thoughts?