Considering that when the problems started, many people online were having a similar issue I think it's unlikely it was a hardware failure.

Or Microsoft deliberately bought shoddy RAM/SSDs, intending to force the bathtub curve down onto devkits they wanted dead ASAP.

	▲	wtallis 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The machine in question was not a Microsoft product, so they would not have been making decisions about component selection.