I had a old (2015 era) presumably cheap M2 drive in a "refurbished" Dell Inspiron laptop that one day after under year just refused to boot or be recognized has

I had a old (2015 era) presumably cheap M2 drive in a "refurbished" Dell Inspiron laptop that one day after under year just refused to boot or be recognized has having block storage at all (couldn't reformat, internally not externally with a USB adapter). (I bought a cheap replacement that has worked fine since.) Could that have been caused by a sudden power loss that corrupted a key section or the drive?