Denial is a powerful thing

[stootime]

I've been happily ripping 4Ks for about a year on and off, then recently bought some new ones.

Ripped 3 movies fine.
Then "The Substance" appeared to rip fine, but playback of the output file broke at about 45 mins in.
Then "Deadpool & Wolverine" failed with hash check errors.
Then "Get Out" failed with hash check errors.

In-between these failures, other films ripped successfully - and so did a fresh attempt at "The Substance", fuelling my denial that the drive was starting to fail.

Nevertheless, I eventually got a new drive. Because maybe it's those discs? Maybe it's that Linux thing?

Yeah... that original drive is failing. Don't be me, don't live in denial, drives fail.

[remoteneeded]

Oh I've been in denial too. Wasted far too much time blaming a Windows update, blaming bad discs, blaming everything I could bar the drive. Eventually bought a new drive and all the problems went away. As you say, drive fail

[baraktorvan]

Yes indeed, they can fail certainly. I am sorry to hear it did die on you. I have 3 TeamGroup nvme and 2 Toshiba spinners. While I certainly trust both manufacturers and have for years, my external Backup drive is replaced every year just in case.