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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 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I changed the sata cable..same error though

this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
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