harddrive failure or just bad user?

So, suddenly my little acer c720 (with a little ssh inside) doesnt really want to work anymore, it failes on fsck, not able to set superblock flags on my main partition (but the other ones seems to work, they are mountable etc)

Can I somehow decipher if its a hardware issue or not? Is it even possible that the new kernel could create such an issue?

I have tried a bunch of stuff, but the problem seems to neither improve or worsen.

Edit: When trying to mount on a live cd system:

[ 283.307347] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 283.307349] ata1.00: error: { ABRT } [ 283.307720] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33 [ 283.307725] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 [ 283.307731] ata1: EH complete [ 283.315342] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 283.315348] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 [ 283.315351] ata1.00: failed command: FLUSH CACHE [ 283.315357] ata1.00: cmd e7/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 3 res 51/04:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)

Edit 2: I believe i noticed when it happend, the computer froze completely for say 2 min, and the continued, but the filesystem was then readonly (and apps stopped working)

EDIT 3: Aaaand the disk is completely dead! Thanks all anyway, i learned a lot, time to go shopping for a new ssd :)