• I'm chatting with an expert on this, but from the messages in your last post it looks like you have IO subsystem contention - not enough IOPS to handle the required load. CheckDB when run Physical_Only is disk-bound (if I recall) and hence is going to be hammering the drives.

    Maybe worth checking SAN logs (I assume it's a SAN), see what the throughput is and what errors there are, if any.

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