Is my SSD faulty or the cable connecting it?

I have the above model A1465 and I get the folder with the question mark upon loading.

I have tried the following:

1) Ran the Recovery feature both from Command+R, and used the internet recovery.

The download finishes and the apple logo comes up and then goes to the OSX utilities options. when I click on the Disk utility it finds "disk0" and underneath Mac OSX Base System, nothing more and all options are greyed out.

2) I have tried to reinstall MAC OSX

This brings up the OS version to install etc (OS X Lion) and gets to the point where it asks which disk to install to - but there are no options here.

So, what is the best methods to troubleshoot the problem (I do not have another mac to try) using a windows system or can you point me to the part numbers needed at least for the connecting cable.

Hope you can help and any is appreciated.

regards