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sasuke108
 Post subject: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2024, 12:50 
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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.
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kotel
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2024, 14:20 
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sasuke108
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 2nd, 2024, 18:29 
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I have attached the result of crystaldiskinfo.
All my HDD health was good.


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kotel
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 3rd, 2024, 6:19 
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When the error appears, can you listen to see if the drive is spinning?
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Zero Alpha
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 4th, 2024, 20:12 
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SMR drives are not ideal for torrenting. I wonder if thats the cause

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sasuke108
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 12th, 2024, 11:21 
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kotel wrote:
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.
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michael chiklis
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 12th, 2024, 12:09 
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smr drives are very quite

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sasuke108
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 12th, 2024, 17:49 
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sasuke108 wrote:
kotel wrote:
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.
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labtech
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 14th, 2024, 11:17 
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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?

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sasuke108
 Post subject: Re: Errored: The device is not ready
PostPosted: August 14th, 2024, 22:45 
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labtech wrote:
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.
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