After much searching, I eventually discovered that there's a firmware update for my Samsung Firecuda NVMe drives: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/ Also Seagate: https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/workstations-isv-certified/sr/workstations/linux?appliedRefinements=39332 Not sure about the WD drive yet; but it's less urgent... No idea if this will solve my problems; but a reasonable possibility. To be honest, this unnerves me; so will do more research before proceeding... Thanks Ken and Adrian for your responses which helped me look deeper... Pierre On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:03:58 -0400 pf@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >Forgot to mention version: > >PostgreSQL 15.4 on x86_64-mageia-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Mageia >12.3.0-3.mga9) 12.3.0, 64-bit > >Sorry, >Pierre > >