Hi, On Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 04:36:07PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > c) In your Debian machine's hardware like storage controller, drives or > > memory. Seems unlikely since your operating system would just totally > > malfunction relatively quickly. > > I once saw this happen with a PCI extender (a right-angle > adapter for a rackmount case) and a 3Ware RAID card.
Right, yeah. It isn't clear to me if OP is storing all these files on USB attached storage. If that is the case then bugs with the driver or failing of that hardware would become my #1 guess, and the fact that it's only for data not the OS would explain why OP's Debian computer doesn't just completely fail. Hopefully easy for OP to exclude by testing all this using only the same storage that the OS is on. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
