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.

Run crystaldiskinfo.

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

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

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

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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.

smr drives are very quite

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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.

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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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.