Maybe getting in front of it and offering to direct it somehow? It’s still a business, and while growth isn’t the goal, it may help secure funding.

Not that I know, I really am just guessing.

Honestly, I sold an XP media center with Mint on it for $20. I was exceedingly clear on the capabilities

I’m suggesting either using the secure erase utility built into your efi if available or using hdparm and calling secure erase.

https://grok.lsu.edu/article.aspx?articleid=16716

I suggest calling these utilities with no other drives connected.

True, but it’s not clear to me that both drives are exhibiting the behavior and it sounds more like a copy between two drives. I wouldn’t rule it out and do think it is a possibility, but in my professional experience drives fail much more frequently than controllers.

It makes sense to me to test the drives individually, in another system preferably, using smart long test, which is non-destructive. Next test other drives in this system. If there are errors, try changing out the SATA cables, too. If you can shuffle the data off the drives, do so and then try running them through a secure erase in another system. A bad drive should fail the same way in another system.

My other thought for probably not being the controller is that 4TB is a very long time for a sustained transfer to fail on a flakey component. Also, there are no reports of other errors.

Sounds like a bad drive, TBH. Not as much the platters but the electronics.

If you can move all the data off and do a secure erase on it, it will tell you all lot.

I can’t recommend Mint more. I ran it for years, only switching to Fedora for a newer kernel.

Great info. That makes a lot of sense.

Not sure the devs do either. The gameplay seemed interesting, but it appeared to be a lot of Minecraft mechanics.

I’d try it for $10.

The last board suggested with 5 ports would handle 4 drives in raidz2.

This is smaller even. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/hRBrxr/asrock-motherboard-970mpro3

I would prefer having the smaller board with the hba and putting 8-10 smaller drives in raidz3. That would give you 6 TB with three drives for failure to prevent loss.

Outside the drives, the cost would be under $200 for the board and the hba.

If you have an old system with two PCI-e 16 ports, then your cost is about $90 before you start buying drives.

I’m doing similar with a DDR3 system and spinning 1 TB disks. It’s fast enough to serve video streams.

Ok, so if you want to do a bunch of drives in a box:

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/FhPzK8/gigabyte-mw50-sv0-atx-lga2011-3-motherboard-mw50-sv0

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/yFWJ7P/crucial-bx500-4-tb-25-solid-state-drive-ct4000bx500ssd1

However, that’s expensive. I would go with spinning disks.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/9wVmP6/western-digital-wd-blue-4-tb-35-5400rpm-internal-hard-drive-wd40ezaz

If you want to bring the cost down more,

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/4bqPxr/asus-prime-b550-plus-ac-hes-atx-am4-motherboard-prime-b550-plus-ac-hes

https://ebay.us/m/kmgfao

You can drive the price down more by buying a used system.

The pile of SSDs will be easiest to stuff into a box.

You will need to get creative with cooling.

Pretty sure we are on the same page here. My only concern is that the radio drivers would remain out of date because the manufacturer wouldn’t post updates and I don’t expect Lineage to handle an unexpected driver change gracefully.

I could be wrong and the drivers might be a trivial thing for lineage, but I doubt it.

Also, drivers, modules, firmware, I’m using these terms loosely because of the way they have been treated by Android, using Firmware to refer up Android itself.

The bigger issues may be blobs used for radio firmware, but LineageOS should replace your OS. Assuming you can get regular updates and you aren’t the target of the state, you are probably fine.

I’m guessing all the old games were most likely less than 50mb, if you include everything up to SNES, guess if you make AI upscaled images you can bloat that space.

I second reviewing your XMP settings. I have seen instability with more aggressive profiles.

You can try running any built in diagnostics or you could use memtest86+. It appears to work on UEFI systems.

https://www.memtest.org/

This sounds like a hardware issue. If you are lucky, it is a keyboard, mouse, or something. Doesn’t sound like memory because you would possibly have memory errors or kernel panics.

9060 here. I’m sure you already have a distro picked, but I found Fedora quite good for gaming.

Debian appears to still support x86, and 512 MB memory.

If you can increase the memory, you can consider LMDE, but I suggest sticking to Debian with the extra memory to allow space for a browser and office applications.

EDIT: It appears 2 GB is possible, it was a limit in XP.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/my-toshiba-nb100-netbook-review.17943780/

Edit2: https://a.co/d/5Mdq5Q8 is pretty cheap. You only need one, but it’s the same cost either way. Maybe you can sell or trade it?

Good point.

It could be a failing drive. If you have a spare drive you could reinstall on there and import your guests. Could save hours of troubleshooting software ghosts.