And with slowly I mean slowly to the point where it actually not bothering me enough to take action immediatly… Did you ever had that? A piece of Hardware slowly losing it’s reliability but refuses to die properly. It just dies enough to bother but not fully so you actually need to spend money and solve it.

Maybe it’s a me problem, but I refuse to replace tech which is actually working. Not because I want to save a few bucks, but becaus well - cite the meme - “This is fine” nad partly it is.

First of all my homeserver runs a native linux install, beside a docker on it there is no Proxmox or other bigger instance in front. It is bare metal and this is fine for me, always has been. I’m not a huge friend of all those NAS GUI or crap like plesk and so on. Proxmox would be an option, but you know how much work is moving all this stuff to proper install and containers? Ehhh..

It’s running my plex server, immich, paperless and a bunch of other stuff like a old node-red instance paired with MQTT Server and a half done move to homeassit, which I found isn’t for me. But thats another story.

Recently it greets me with regular “Not reachable” and a dying SSD of the OS.

1272 2026-08-01T20:51:57.199258+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 811885120, 256 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
1273 2026-08-01T20:51:57.199292+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 811885120 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 2 prio class 2
1274 2026-08-01T20:51:57.365496+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 811885192, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE DNR
1275 2026-08-01T20:51:57.365529+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 811885192 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
1276 2026-08-01T20:51:57.529276+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 811885192, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE DNR
1277 2026-08-01T20:51:57.529305+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 811885192 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
1278 2026-08-01T20:51:57.693255+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 811885192, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE DNR
1279 2026-08-01T20:51:57.693280+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 811885192 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
1280 2026-08-01T20:52:07.291504+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 45644000, 256 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE
1281 2026-08-01T20:52:07.291534+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 45644000 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 9 prio class 2
1282 2026-08-01T20:52:07.518151+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 45644008, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE DNR
1283 2026-08-01T20:52:07.518184+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 45644008 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
1284 2026-08-01T20:52:07.740813+02:00 homeserver kernel: nvme0n1: I/O Cmd(0x2) @ LBA 45644008, 8 blocks, I/O Error (sct 0x2 / sc 0x81) MORE DNR
1285 2026-08-01T20:52:07.740845+02:00 homeserver kernel: critical medium error, dev nvme0n1, sector 45644008 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2

I Know critical medium error sounds dramatic, but I cant decide, and after a fsck it’s still fine and “running”. Btw. all the real “Data” is sitting on a ZFS pool on other drives which are totally fine. I know I could reinstall and just replace the system disk, or even clone it. But I wanted to get something new more power efficient anyway. Maybe my inner me just waiting for it to finally die to have a convincing argument to buy new stuff.

Actually I planned to buy a Miniforum NAS Pro as a replacement, but the prices for this one are really nothing I could justify to my own conscience. My alternative in mind is currently the Aoostar NAS Case. Basically both are NAS Cases with a embeded Mainboard. I do not do alot of transcoding or whatever on them, but for the Aoostar I feel it might be to weak.

Anybody got experience with one of those two devices?