Errored: The device is not ready

[sasuke108]

I recently bought an external hard drive - 4TB - Toshiba Canvio Advance

My problem is when i'm downloading torrent, after downloading well for some time, it says in red "errored: The device is not ready".
I'm using Qbittorent. If i do resume, it will start downloading well again, then after some time, same problem.
The problem is not with the torrent itself.

Initally I thought the drive must be turning off (sleep), so I configured the power management to never turn off the hdd.
CHKDSK revealed no bad sectors and no problems.

Please help me.

[kotel]

Run crystaldiskinfo.

[sasuke108]

I have attached the result of crystaldiskinfo.
All my HDD health was good.

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[kotel]

When the error appears, can you listen to see if the drive is spinning?

[Zero Alpha]

SMR drives are not ideal for torrenting. I wonder if thats the cause

[sasuke108]

When the error appears, can you listen to see if the drive is spinning?

Sorry for late reply.

When the error appears, i can barely hear/feel the drive spinning.
I think it goes to sleep mode.

I need a way to prevent it from going to sleep mode.

[michael chiklis]

smr drives are very quite

[sasuke108]

When the error appears, can you listen to see if the drive is spinning?

Sorry for late reply.

When the error appears, i can barely hear/feel the drive spinning.
I think it goes to sleep mode.

I need a way to prevent it from going to sleep mode.

I used "vovsoft - prevent disk sleep". So the drive was still spinning but the same error appeared.
I don't think the problem is with the specific torrent being downloaded.
But it could be with the Qbittorrent software.

[labtech]

Try downloading the drive to another storage. If the file and downloading takes place fine, then it would indicate there is a problem with the Toshiba drive.

Also, try to copy a file to the Toshiba drive, instead of downloading something to it. Does it work? Can you open the copied file successfully on the Toshiba drive?

[sasuke108]

Try downloading the drive to another storage. If the file and downloading takes place fine, then it would indicate there is a problem with the Toshiba drive.

Also, try to copy a file to the Toshiba drive, instead of downloading something to it. Does it work? Can you open the copied file successfully on the Toshiba drive?

I can copy things to the drive and open them without problem.
I think since its an external drive, there must be some kind of software in it that puts it to sleep after some time.