980 Pro

Since you've run live OS from usb, that excluded potential problems with Samsung drive - coincidentally I have 2Tb 980 Pro that gave me problems on Windows (hard freezes, not detected in bios until power is disconnected from PSU), and works perfectly fine in laptop and CachyOS.

Update bios if there is new version, for starters. What's the exact drive model? I had problems with Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB that liked to just disappear in Windows until power is removed from computer, and behaves ok with Arch.

If you past your log messages to AI, it is smart enough nowadays to analyze it … It means ESXi sent an NVMe read command to that Samsung 980 PRO and the device itself returned NVMe status 0x281, which Broadcom documents as “Unrecovered Read Error.” In the same Broadcom table, opcode 0x2 means Read.

All your teeth look fine, I am not sure what ssd you have but when you put the SSD in just lightly drop in the ps5 slot and lift it up about a half inch and carfuly push it in till you hear a click, the SSD you are using is a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB M.2 Internal SSD I think, I really can't tell from the