Apple Diagnostics Hard Drive Error

My new 2012 Mac Mini Server has been unstable since I purchased it in mid-December from Apple. I ran Apple Diagnostics twice this evening and received hard drive message- "ERROR-Reading took longer than average time-TEST FAILED-" . Apple telephone support is closed and so I'm not able put the question to them and wonder if anyone in the Community could shed some light on this. It is an SSD drive and has passed the Disk First Aid tests but got a failure on the Apple Support Diagnostics test.

I used the "Apple Server Diagnostics EFI 3xIIIv5 for Mac Mini Server (late 2012)" on the Apple Support Site.
The test done was "Hard Drive SATA (0,0) (Test1)-Full Read Test (1-4 Hours, DMA Full Read Scan) Reads the entire HD checking for slow-read failures."
The result was "ERROR-Reading took longer than the average time. -TEST FAILED-".
As I mentioned earlier, the disk passed Disk First Aid's verify and permissions tests.
The system has generated 8 Kernel Panic Reports and has experienced numerous freezes and spinning balls since an authorized Apple service center installed the OWC Mercury SSD, Yosemite and 1TB 2nd drive in the two week old 2012 Mac Mini Server from Apple's web site.. The most common spinning balls as of late are upon waking from sleep and when clicking on the Macintosh SSD boot disk icon on the desktop.
I've spent time with Apple's telephone support over the past few days. The boot drive was wiped and Yosemite reinstalled. No issues for about 5 hours and then back to it's old instable ways san Kernel Panics. BTW, the only software on the machine is the bundled apps and Apple's Final Cut Pro.
I have an appointment with the Apple Store Genius Bar on Tuesday. The other Apple certified service center where the drives were installed wanted $100 to test the system since the drives were purchased from OWC and not directly from them. So let's see what Apple says.
Thanks everyone for you input.

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