Why is the ssd not being formatted?

Question

linux

Good day. Essence of the question. We got a 16gb ssd from HP nettops (for free, so it's not a pity). Marking - Apacer MLC sata Module. From the box on the disk is Win10 Embended.
It was planned to deploy ubuntu server to these disks. From the image. The image is now in clonezilla format. (it's definitely working)
For each disk its own.

on several disks everything is normal, but on some of the disks the image unfolds, but when I boot I see the Windows bootloader ... which does not load, because there is no data already
) formatting...
I tried to install ubuntu from 0 - when partitioned, it throws an error, like the disk is not writable. Here it is not clear to me - if data cannot be written to the disk, how can clonezilla restore the image to it and does not display any errors ??

Am I right in assuming the discs are dead? Does it make sense to try low format?

Answer 1

Am I right in assuming the discs are dead?
Does it make sense to try low format?

Yes
No

Answer 2

Would recommend security clean:
hdparm --security-help
and be sure to make an area for OverProvisioning. It is done by the same utility with the -N switch
. Leave 10-15% empty and you will be happy)

Answer 3

which eats is not loaded, because there is no data already

It is possible that the controller detected some problems and switched the device to read-only mode. At the same time, it imitates the record, but in fact does not save anything.

Marking - Apacer MLC sata Module

By such a marking, it is not possible to uniquely identify the device, and Google gives out different options - both with Micron memory and with Toshiba, and even with different layouts.
But this is not important, since you say that there is no important information on them. If you have time and interest, try running different tests (in your case, you can record) and make diagnostics using R.tester: https://rlab.ru/tools/rtester.html
The program is free, it does not require installation. But you need a computer with Windows.