New Crucial SSD replacing OEM hard drive - 22.04 won't install

[kalpana]

My Acer Aspire E5-576's original HDD started failing, so I ordered a replacement (Crucial MX500).

I installed the drive and inserted a bootable 22.04 LTS usb stick. It detected the drive correctly (correct size, etc.) and started the install. I enabled the LVM filesystem and encryption. Once I got to the point where it started copying the system files to the new SSD, I got this error:

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Error fsycing/closing/dev/sda1: Input/output error

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I exited and went to a live USB environment. It sees the drive correctly, however when I try to do a manual format (the original install attempt did partition the drive properly) I get the same error.

I then restarted the installation, this time not encrypting the disk and so far it seems to be copying stuff over ok.

What did I do wrong and how do I go about fixing it so I can install this with the SSD encrypted?

-OR- do I even need to worry about this (encryption) since the Crucial controller includes hardware encryption (though I don't understand how that really helps, since someone could just remove the SSD and plug it into another laptop)?

Thanks.