LS 9261-8i+Crucial SSD on HD DL G7, Lost everything

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I have an HP DL G7 with LSI 9261-8i andone MX500 1TB SSD Hard drives connected to the standard HP Backplane. There were a virtual drive configured and only 1 hard drive in RAID0. I have started installing ESXi 6.5 and configuring many virtual machines. After 4 hours and with moderate drive activity, ESXi stopped responding. The LED of the HD caddy of the server turned amber and I had to reset and unplug/plug the drive.

During the boot process the following message appeared:

LSI Error.jpg

What could have happened ?

Is there any known incompatibility with the hardware used in this setup ?
 
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My hyphotesis are:

The Backpanel
The cabling
The Controller Itself
The drive
The riser
Some incompatibility with the controller so an high error read count could kick the drive off the array (but I do know know where to search for those errors)

But that's not easy do discover in a short time frame and testing is not straightforward.

The most important thing is where to find the events LOG.