On 1/13/21 12:36 AM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
I am fully open to the fact that there may be something wrong with my HDD. But it is difficult to believe that, since this laptop is from 2016 and I had been using Windows 10 on it for a long time and saw no problems.
None that you know of. Windows storage doesn't checksum its content, so if any writes were missed, there's a fairly good chance the computer would never tell you that something was wrong.
But, setting that aside, you have to bear in mind that hard drives wear out. Power supplies wear out. Cables come loose. Even in mostly solid-state computers, systems wear out over time. "It worked in the past" is never evidence that a computer is working *now*. Every computer component that fails was working fine before it failed.
There's nothing particularly surprising about the idea that a five year old hard drive isn't working any more.
Having said all that, I don't believe there is something wrong with the hardware per se, but I do believe the firmware is not capable for BTRFS.
You're drawing an entirely unsupported conclusion from the evidence in front of you. btrfs doesn't demand something from your drive that other filesystems don't, it's just better at telling you that the storage isn't reliable.
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