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HDD issue: Buffer I/O error on dev

One of my drives that's encrypted (LUKS + cryptsetup) ext4 seems to give strange errors when looking at dmesg / syslog: https://pastebin.com/RZdJK2qg And I can't ls into it (but I can cd into it) ...
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Fedora just warned me hard drive might fail soon

So I bought a "Asus X540LA Laptop, Intel Core i7-5500U 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD" in June this year. And today I got a warning that the HDD would fail in <24 hours. I ran smartctl to diagnose the ...
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Troubleshooting failing disk hardware (no medium present) on Linux?

Ok, I was working on my Asus TX300CA, which has a tablet part with CPU and one hard drive in it (/dev/sda), and a keyboard dock with another hard drive (/dev/sdb). The partitions on the drives from ...
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