Hi guys! I’ve been self hosting for a while and been using am 2 tb HDD I bought on aliexpress two years ago to host movies and series… I bought a second drive to separate them and organize my media.

For 2 months everything went awesome but suddenly I started getting IO errors from my old drive. specially when I download and watch a movie at the same time.

Is my drive going die or could it be something else?

Dmesg showed these messages

[345778.390949] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#23 access beyond end of device

I/O error, dev sda, sector 3833662344 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x3000 phys_seg 1 prio class 2

The weird part is the sda device stops showing unless I turn the PC off and take the sata cables from it and restart the PC. Then I can watch movies for a while before getting this error again… Regular reboot does not work.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    il y a 6 heures

    Try smartctl -a on the drive (install smartmontools if needed), to see the error counts. Yeah, back up your stuff, which you should do anyway.

    • HumbleBragger@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      il y a 6 heures

      Just tried that but I’m getting a fail inquiry message… I’ll try to unplug the cables again once I get home for the weekend and try smartctl again to see if I can find something out