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Lenovo support seems to think I have an unusual setup since I run Linux on their Thinkpad & while the NVMe even after an RMA fails under heavy IO despite their partner WD, who sent me an email response saying they never test or certify drives for Linux or BSD. Many users have been experiencing similar failures with their controllers WD proudly boasts as in-house. Note that Lenovo also has a support PDF about running the device on Linux, but the support is ran by a bunch of clowns. Also not that when you purchase, the hardware brand is never mentioned so there is na room for due diligence.
Tl;dr: if you want a working Linux system, don’t purchase Western Digital or Sandisk drives.
I have been running my linux installs off of wd drives for years without any issues. Most of the devices I run are Asus laptops, maybe it is a Lenovo issue?
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/discussions/14793
It seems to be an issue in the last year-ish but across a range of WD/Sandisk drives. They build controllers in house &, if the support is to be believed, don’t test or support Linux/BSD.
Ah, i see now. I use btrfs and the issue is with zfs.
Nope. Read it a bit deeper as the failures are for ZFS, BtrFS, Bcachefs, & Ext4.