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

[Justin Piszcz]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM Dragan Milivojević <galileo at pkm-inc.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Seen the same, although far less frequent, with Samsung SSD 980 PRO on
> a Dell PowerEdge R7525.
> It's the nature of consumer grade drives, I guess.

As this affects multiple NVME manufacturers, are you aware of any
consumer-level NVME drives that do not have this problem or is moving
to U.2/U.3 server drives necessary to avoid drives dropping offline?