Yea, the deck is fine but so far I haven’t gotten the SSD to work anymore. When I put it into my PC it wouldn’t post and instead freeze on the bios screen. I’m now using my original 64GB eMMc storage that came with the deck, which is less than ideal but at least it works.
I’m slowly rewatching Cowboy Bebop (only have a couple of episodes left now) and I still love it. It’s my first rewatch after having watched it for the first time about 15+ years ago and even with all the other great animes releasing over the years, I think, it still stands up extremely well.