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It would be wise imho not to delete the offending files/dirs before sorting the disk surface. This way at least the space is counted as allocated. If the file and/or directory was successfully removed, the space would be reallocated.
Once bad sectors are marked bad, things can proceed. Hopefully, it's only the sectors are affected, but a serious smartctl eye should be kept on that disk.
Indeed, "Input/output error" generally relates to hardware problems. There should be messages recorded in the system error log indicating what went wrong. I'm not familiar with the "SolydX" distribution and whether you can just look at /var/log/messages or have to use journalctl to see the system messages.
NTFS corruption IS a hardware issue and CAN present in this way. Fixing the corruption allows normal manipulation of the storage.
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