I have the exact same drive and I thought I had a bad one.. I quickly replaced with a different drive only for the same error/symptom. Turns out the SAS/SATA breakout cable might be at fault.. I wiggled the SATA cable on the drive side and it came back, same issue.. happened again and I unplugged the SAS side and replugged it and haven't had the problem for three weeks now.
I have the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 with the included breakout cable(s).
Also to be noted it ran for a year without issue with a vanilla setup. The errors happened a few weeks ago before I went to the ESXi world..
Mike
