Is Mac OS killing my Samsung NVME?

Hey guy, long post incoming but your help is welcomed.

So Mac OS has been running pretty much perfectly on my Dell laptop for sometime now.

But recently it's been acting strange.

It got to the point where booting in Mac OS was taking a long time, pretty much 5 minutes to boot into Mac OS. Wasn't a huge deal to me.

But on Saturday I downloaded a tonne of torrents, almost maxing out the SSD.

I decided to network transfer some of the torrents from my laptop to my PC.

Deleted some torrents, then downloaded more, made another network transfer, and it failed and I got an error message (can't remember what the error was but I'm pretty sure it was just a generic one it spits out).

Decided to reboot my laptop and it kernel panicked.

Decided to reboot into Safe mode and it worked.

Tried rebooting again normally, kernel panic.

Tried rebooting into safe mode, kernel panic.

Thought "oh shit" and booted into a Ubuntu Live CD.

Mounted Mac EFI partition into Ubuntu, Ubuntu recognises Mac's Data partition.

Rebooted into Mac's Recovery partition.

Unable to reinstall Mac OS Ventura due to SSD being completely used up.

Used Terminal commands to delete various torrents, free space.

Reinstalled Mac OS Ventura.

Rebooted into Mac OS Safe mode, success.

Opened OpenCore.

Updated OpenCore.

Tried mounting EFI partition, entered password, did not mount, tried mounting again, nothing happened.

Downloaded Mount EFI Tool, tried mounting EFI, error, wouldn't mount.

Though "oh shit" again.

Rebooted into Mac OS without safe mode, kernel panic.

Rebooted into Mac OS Safe mode, kernel panic.

Rebooted into Mac's Recovery partition.

Reinstalled Mac OS Ventura again.

Rebooted into Mac OS Safe mode, kernel panic.

Rebooted into Mac OS without safe mode, kernel panic.

It's also worth noting that I very recently installed the 13.5.1 security update, but I've been using it fine and rebooting fine after that update. It's only now that it's acting crazy.

Any help is welcome.

Laptop: Dell (Can't remember the exact model)

OS: Mac OS Ventura (13.5.1)

Drive: Samsung 970 Evo

TRIM: No idea it's enabled or not and I'm not really sure what it does

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