Take them apart, add the magnets to my massive ball of old hard drive magnets, shed a tear, order a replacement, and then move on 😂

I've used badblocks in the past to get an extra few years out of a failing drive in the past. But this was in the 64gb being a large drive days, and it only delayed problems

I can’t see the SMART data. May be something in there that gives me more information. Seems odd to me that an SSD would just go bad out of the blue - but if you’ve not turned on the drive or laptop in a while, that could be why. But honestly, it may just be fine after a full drive write - couldn’t hurt to try zeroing it w/ dd.

SSDs don’t like being left unpowered for more than a few months. All flash storage, actually. If you take out an SSD and stick it on a shelf for a few years, it’s unlikely that it’ll lose data - but it’s absolutely technically possible, and many companies won’t cover such data losses by warranty after a specified period of time.

From HDDs you at least had quality magnets and a bldc motor. SSDs go straight to electro trash.

I've seen a few artists online use dead electronics to make really amazing multimedia art! If you can't figure out a way to use it technically, maybe contact such kind of artist who could use the materials artistically?

I'd kinda trust it if it would detect the errors on its own, but now it's just returning corrupt data, so I'd ditch it

I'm a bit baffled that this hasn't popped up yet: Sell them on eBay.
Mark them as broken goods/scrap and re-iterate that fact very clearly in the product description. Broken drives often sell for up to 1/3 of the value of a working one, no scamming needed.

I cannot tell you why that is, but my theory is that a lot of folk buy up broken drives in private sales in the hopes that the "broken"-diagnosis is just user error and that the drive is actually fine. Knowing my users that might actually be true in many cases.

Edit: I didn't quite catch that you were not able to successfully overwrite your data. I guess that's a point against selling it. Always encrypt your drives, that way you can always sell them when they break!