[Support] HDD diing or something else? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by HumbleBragger@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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.

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[-] HumbleBragger@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry .. It's an internal sata WD purple plugged directly in the mobo (Brazilian crappy brand from China) LGA 1155...desktop I'm running Debian 13..the OS is on an mvme drive. I have another WD 2tb drive and a seagate 1tb drive too..both connected to the sata ports.

this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026

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