Soooooooooooooooo what are the chances that an overheated external USB HDD would cause a crash? Below is the error message that was on my command line console (not sure what that screen is called?) and the logs that go with it. The drive is a cheap 12 TB desktop drive that I had laying on it's side. It was very hot to the touch. I powered it down and turned it upright to cool off, then rebooted the machine. SmartCTL was showing 113 worst value but not sure if that is accurate. RAW VALUE show...
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