The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Scryotechnic on 2024-12-19 08:03:47.

Hi All,

I’m new to this stuff, but trying to learn. I’ve got a NAS rated Seagate drive in a DAS enclosure attached via USB C to a laptop running Plex in a VM on a hypervisor.

I was doing my usual downloading. No more than 8 torrent active downloading, maybe 6 uploading. Someone in the house was watching a video from it. And then I had the genius idea to, from my personal PC, plug in my phone so I could load a file from the DAS to my phone directly. When I did this, the GUI element that windows pops up for file copy progress was stuck at 0%. I closed it and tried again. Now this is me being dumb, I tried it two more times. Then I got IO fails on the torrent and realized the drive just errored out IO -5 fail. Error at 0x2. I then rebooted, dumbly restarted my torrents, and immediately failed again. This time I rebooted, ran xfs repair, cleared and deleted the partially downloaded torrents. Now things seem back to normal, but I haven’t had time to run a full health check on the drive since it’s an 8tb drive.

I’m wondering what specifically caused it so I can avoid the fail in the future. I just tried transferring the file that I was trying to get on my phone to my personal computer first, then to my phone, and that worked without issue. I’m wondering if trying to transfer from the server DAS drive over my network to my phone connected to my PC was the issue. It’s the only thing I did differently than I would usually do. I’m wondering if there are permissions on the newer Android phone that would have refused the file transfer due to it not coming directly from the PC I had it plugged into. I’m also unsure if this little mishap caused permanent damage to my drive.

I’m a noob, but still a nerd, so hopefully I’ll understand. Any thoughts are appreciated!