Question Is trying to read a faulty SSD going to cause any problems ?

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It's a Samsung PM981 M.2 NVMe 1TB SSD. It's got some problem with it, but I don't know more than that. I got it into a USB rack now, but is it a good idea to try and access it several times, can that damage it further? Or as long as I don't try to write to it, only read from it, it won't degrade further? I'm only familiar with HDD's, not SSD's, I know they are a different animal but I don't know if it's the same as with a dying HDD.

Some more info: I do get errors connecting it to the USB on the PC. It doesn't show up as a proper partition and Event manager showed an IO error for logical block address 0x0 ("The IO operation at logical block address 0x0 for Disk 2 (PDO name: \Device\00000065) failed due to a hardware error."). Disk manager did want to initialise it, I canceled on that, because I'd like the data saved off it if I can. I can also try using Linux, which is the better option?