You may be eligible for a free SSD fix as part of an Apple service program. Apple has a service program to repair potentially faulty SSD drives in some 13-inch non Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks.

SSD on the other hand is unacceptable and hopefully right to repair laws catch up with Apple eventually.

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