Asus, Samsung and many other vendors do NOT cater to Linux users and provide software for tuning or updating that will only work when using windoze. For this reason, it is advisable to purchase directly from the vendor which will ensure that a device with the latest firmware gets shipped.
A purchase made from a firm in a supply chain will not guarantee that you will get a device with the latest firmware. In most cases you will get a device that an overworked employee first gets his/her hands on.
IMO there is hope. C-Suite executives will eventually stop ignoring the fact that forcing their firms to use windoze, the most hacked OS in the entire world, can have huge negative impact on the bottom line as well as customer perception and begin embracing Linux, the OS that powers the Cloud as the de facto desktop.
It will not fix actual hardware failure, but certainly is able to solve firmware incompatibilities with the OS that seem to appear as hardware failures.
Kernel and driver updates have been known to reveal problems in device firmware that previously were overlooked. Firmware updates usually fix those.
Not in this case. 870 is ancient, you would have found several reports on the subject by now. In the (rare) case of firmware incompatibility with linux, you would be well aware of the problem by Fedora or Googling. Usually, the disk is not recognised by the os.
Here, instead, the bios recognises it only now and then. It has nothing to do with Fedora.