Is this GPT 5? In particular,

The drive in your laptop does not do this. The cheap drive I had ordered off Amazon does not do this. A consumer drive’s firmware is, in the technical sense, dumb. It sees a disc, it reports the contents, it lets the OS handle whatever happens next. The server drive is the unusual one.

This is worth pausing on.

The "short punchy sentences, new paragraph, 'This matters' type sentence" style is very reminiscent of GPT-5.x.