RE: SSD Boot fail...
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Hopefully it ends up being the SSD and not the interface. I had one laptop (a much older one) that wouldn't detect any drive that was plugged into it at all.
I have another computer sitting here that I THINK has a hard drive going bad. The problem started after it wouldn't boot after installing an update (endless spinning circle of dots but never loading). I tried every troubleshooting technique out there from rolling back to a restore point to manually uninstalling updates from a command prompt and finally to reinstalling windows completely. The complete windows wipe and reinstall seemed to work...until it rebooted after the initial install and I got the same neverending spinning circle of dots...
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Oh, I really really hope it isn't the motherboard/physical connector. That would be an incredibly pain in the arse... However, I'm hopeful as the BIOS does detect the SSDs... even if it won't boot from it... so, I'm leaning towards corrupt MBR or SSD... but that might just be wishful thinking!
Is yours a platter hard drive? I don't think I have any of those left in the house except in the NAS. I haven't even turned that one since the move, I worry that the physical mechanism didn't survive the trip.
In this case it was a laptop mechanical hard drive (2.5") that was connected to the laptop via SATA. But the BIOS didn't recognize any drive plugged in so it was definitely the physical connector or the motherboard. A HD/SSD problem is probably more likely in most cases.