WD Red SN700 4000GB, F/W: 11C120WD (Device not ready; aborting reset, CSTS=0x1)

[Justin Piszcz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM Dr. David Alan Gilbert
<linux at treblig.org> wrote:
>
> * Justin Piszcz (jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com) wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Issue/Summary:
> > 1. Usually once a month, a random WD Red SN700 4TB NVME drive will
> > drop out of a NAS array, after power cycling the device, it rebuilds
> > successfully.
> >
> > Questions:
>
> > 3. Are there any debug options that can be enabled that could help to
> > pinpoint the root cause?
>
> Have you tried using the 'nvme' command to see if the drives have
> anything in their smart or error logs?

Thanks, I did check on this and ran the usual tests, everything passed
- as part of this thread it was mentioned that some consumer NVME
drives have these issues:
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793

For those using an multiple NVME drives with BTRFS/ZFS, are there
known good NVME drives that will work and not have this consistent
timeout issue where the drives drop offline?