There are things you can do to reduce vibrations in a PC case, not so much in a NAS.
In my last built, I put silicon bands between HDD and case, and fixed the drives with zip ties.
I found in the local hardware store silicon and rubber chair feet, or L shapped silicon bands.
You can use silicon or rubber to dump anything - drives, fans, car engine 
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My built running 2 drives is next to my bedroom. I don’t hear anything from it.
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Roger that! Thanks for the tip!
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pretty sure the rack is: LINKBASIC DRB32-66-A . and the 2 4U cases are NETRACK NP5105
Looks more like a test table 
Are those Intel SSDs on the wall ?
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They simply disappear from the system and the BIOS stops seeing them at all. and yes, as you can see, this is not a one-time event. At the moment, approximately 90% of those purchased in 2014 have failed
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Well, 10 years in production is not a bad run 
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This is also the typical failure mode with SSDs in my experience.
Granted, I only had 2 fail and they were both consumer grade. I would bloody well hope the enterprise grade ones would fail more gracefully!
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Hynix chips and controller in them. Of course they are crap. I switched from Intel to Samsung and never looked back.
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Within specified TBW?
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This is highly suspect. There must be some external factor. like power supply that does not filter transients? Or temperature? Or indeed unusual (misaligned?) load?
FWIW
In my anecdotal experience over years I had a couple of micron SSD die (not really die per se — just develop bad sectors) but none catastrophically disappeared. And most of them are Intel, second next — Micron.
I know those. They stop beeing recognised and the system didn’t boot. So they were crap for you as they were for me. Mine had like 80% life.
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Ah yes, these are even so unexpectedly lightweight nobody can possibly take them seriously :). I use one of them as a boot drive in TrueNAS – nothing ever gets written to it. Except software updates once a year.
But they still should not be failing in hordes, it’s rather weird. There must be some underlying reasons.
(most of my SSDs are https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/product-specifications/ssd-dc-s3510-spec.pdf, used ones, from ebay)
Is this a museum? (20 chars)
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yep- Seoul museum of modern art :))) but concept is brilliant
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