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That's not a stress test. That's a benchmark
I think I've made a few suggestions in this thread to try and give the OP a hand reviving their install.

When I see posts that have little merit I let it go most off the time. But when I see a post, part of which is both of little merit, and potentially harmful I comment.
I said you were right about the the backup. I said I didn't see the benefit of a stress test because there isn't a benefit and it just increases the wear to your drive. The only way to properly stress test a drive is to write and read the entire drive, mainly write. Many times.
And as already stated it proves nothing about a likely failure if it passes. Waste of time and shortens the drives life.

Your opinions are not my policy.

Have a nice day.

Gee, where to begin? Thank you every one. It's late, I'm past dead, and I won't be 'doing' anything today but I have downloaded the

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artix-community-qt-openrc-20220627-x86_64.iso

image.  The disk has 10k hours, SMART reports no issues, don't think it was hardware but for now the magnetic 4tb WD is sidelined and already wiped.

Provisioonally and just trying to cut ahead of more involved footwork, how about installing without formatting?  I presume thos would preserve all my user-installed apps as they were. The 'home' being on an off-system path all the look-and-feel is well protected. Subsequent updates might fix any loose ends.

BTW what's the difference other than date between the above iso image and

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artix-plasma-openrc-20220123-x86_64.iso.part

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Gee, where to begin? Thank you every one. It's late, I'm past dead, and I won't be 'doing' anything today but I have downloaded the

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artix-community-qt-openrc-20220627-x86_64.iso

image.  The disk has 10k hours, SMART reports no issues, don't think it was hardware but for now the magnetic 4tb WD is sidelined and already wiped.

Provisioonally and just trying to cut ahead of more involved footwork, how about installing without formatting?  I presume thos would preserve all my user-installed apps as they were. The 'home' being on an off-system path all the look-and-feel is well protected. Subsequent updates might fix any loose ends.

BTW what's the difference other than date between the above iso image and

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artix-plasma-openrc-20220123-x86_64.iso.part

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artix-community-qt-openrc-20220627-x86_64.iso

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BTW what's the difference other than date between the above iso image and

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artix-plasma-openrc-20220123-x86_64.iso.part

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I'm not fully following that.

You've mention installing without formatting but also having wiped the drive, or at least a drive. That's the bit that confused me ?
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Ok, I see where I messed up the comms :-)

The filesystem corruption causing data-loss which I subsequently recovered form was a 4tb DATA drive also hosting some of the home folders including my usual one..

The possible cause was a lockup of a Linux system that is on a 1tb ssd with some other distros. This filesystem event was internal to the bootable partition and is additional to and likely the cause of the other one affecting the entire 4tb data drive which took a fit upon journal replay following the lockup. I don't remember which system locked up, but my Artix system is the ONLY one with any teltale issues, the primary subject of this thread.

10k hours.  that's an experienced 4gb hdd.  416 days of continuous use  or 1250 days (3.4 years) of use 8 hrs every day.  I bet you have had it for longer than 3 1/2 years?

Sorry for your hdd and your problem.

you using some good firewalls and some vpn there hossenfeffer?  Something def wonky going on there.

The OP didn't state how the corruption occurred. It may be a bad disk. It may have been a bad shutdown, power cut. IDK.