This old SSD give me anxious.
While attempt to install Centos from ISO flashdisk it quit with error. Could not write to disk.
Wow. This SSD should still have some life, just make some 3 years of use and not even daily fire-up.
Fortunately, some folks in Linux Mint community shed some light https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=368230.
Basically:
Write sector 0 and repartitioning.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1
then finish it in GParted, GUI style ^_^
now its come back to life again
