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

Yeah I changed the sata cable…same error though

I don’t actually… I deleted because I had to back up my immich library recently =[

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.

Yeah I suspected that too. Specially after downloading a lot of movies at once but I haven’t used any tools besides fsck and fdisk and they read 1.8 Tb…I’ll look into that to make surr… Thanks!

I’m not quite familiar with smart but right now I’m getting a fail inquiry message. I’m 200km from my home so I’ll have to try using smartctl again on Saturday and see what I can find out…thanks for the direction!

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.

And TIL that the crappy Philips screw was actually this pozidriv one. I hate it. But at least now I know I just don’t have the right tool to use it.