Tried a DR Ok?  Could be a low voltage issue.  Powered hubs are good to
keep around.  I have a Pi4 and a 512 GB SSD working fine in a USB adapter
(under Linux).  Not my 1TB though.

On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 5:32 PM Douglas Silva <dougsilva....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm getting filesystem errors during operation, and they're not associated
> with
> a power outage. Looking at the serial console, it says something about
> 'mangled entry' and lists the process involved in the crash, then ends
> with a
> debugging prompt, which is unresponsive.
>
> After forcibly shutting it down, it requires a manual 'fsck', which lists
> multiple inconsistencies and corrupted files.
>
> Most of them happen to torrent data. I run a torrent client -
> Transmission.
> It's the busiest process I have, so it's no surprise that it is the most
> affected. Shutting down Transmission definitely improves my uptime. But
> Syncthing - another busy process that reads and writes a lot of files,
> eventually becomes the victim of another filesystem error.
>
> Even 'git' once became involved in a crash. A Git repository I was hosting
> there became corrupted during a 'git push' - it crashed the server in the
> same
> way - and I had to rebuild it from backups.
>
> The storage media used as root is a Kingston DataTraveler USB stick of 128
> GB.
> It's like one month old. What are the odds of this being a defective unit?
>
> I'm planning to try Linux on it, but if this is a hardware problem, the
> journalling filesystems would only mask it for a while, right? I've read
> that
> OpenBSD 'ffs' doesn't do journalling.
>
> What do you think I should do?
>
>
>

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