Unlike hard drives, SSDs are much more difficult to diagnose -- the technology is constantly changing and diagnostics usually lag.  While you'd expect SSDs to be more reliable than conventional hard drives because they have no moving parts, they're actually less reliable at this point.  Flash memory deteriorates over time and in ways that are sometimes not completely predictable.

If you can find a diagnostic for the SSD from its manufacturer, try that - otherwise, it sounds like a replacement drive is in order.

Thanks ENJ63.  I finally got frustrated enough that I took it in to be diagnosed.  The initial scan showed that I have an HDD(720gb) and SDD (1gb ???).  The HDD was good but the SDD was not.  He was not able to positively determine the size of the SDD without taking out all the components.

Waiting to hear back his full report and recommendation.

I literally just got off the phone with the tech guy and he confirmed it was 32G but the drive had gone bad.  He says it's operating well and fast, so I'm not replacing it.

The SSD is likely a 32G mSATA card.

If you want the performance gain of a cached hard drive, the WD and Seagate hybrid drives are a better solution than the mSATA caching SSD (which has largely faded from newer systems).

It was really a solution to a problem that never really existed - a hybrid drive with built-in NAND is a much better idea.