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.
At this point, I would treat it as a failing drive and have a solid back up of the data.
That is the weird part. Almost like some intermittent power or connection glitch. Is this an internal drive or external in an enclosure? When you say the ‘sda stops showing’ does it disappear completely from
lsblk? Does the drive have any SMART capabilities?Yeah… I’ll make a backup from the more important movies but most of them can be downloaded again thankfully.
It’s an internal sata drive powered by the PC PSU … I have an old dock station I used to connect an old HDD to.my pi…I’ll try to use it and mount the drive using USB port to see if the problem is electrical. I’ve suspected the PSU could be the issue and I don’t know the exact power it provides. Lsblk shows the sda drive…fdisk -l does not since I unmounted the device. I’ve just installed smartools but I’m getting a fail inquiry message so I can’t really tell.