It would be really strange for WD Gold drives since they support TLER (time limited error recovery)Actually, could this be related?
And WD's RAID edition drives (what WD Gold is) can't have TLER disabled
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EDIT:
Here is a post from 2 years ago describing identical issues
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Looks like TLER is disabled in the latest batch of WD Gold drives...
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