Looks pretty neat.

Is there a way to have it run like a ram statistics monitor? I’d love to have this running in a terminal window to monitor my ram statistics.

https://www.protondb.com/app/418240

Find a similar setup to yours and see what they’ve done to make it run.

This is what I think is most likely as well. The capacity on the drive makes me think it’s a SSD and they can just spontaneously fail.

This is why you always need backups. It’s never a question of if, but rather when a drive will fail.