April 10, 20242 yr In order to run an extended SMART test, disk spin down must be disabled. Makes sense since I've tried it in the past (on a 5.x version, maybe?) and could never get the test to run to completion. It would be very handy to have an option for "Temporarily disable spin down for 'X' hours", where 'X' could be in a drop down, or could be a free-form numeric entry with a drop down for [Minutes|Hours|Days]. I could disable spin down for 24 hours to run a SMART test, then rest assured that it will reenable and all my disks will go back to sleep when not needed, eliminating the confusion on why they're always up... Even better would be for the OS to be able to detect that an extended SMART test is running on a disk and simply not spin it down, but I haven't a clue if that's possible or not.
April 11, 20242 yr 17 hours ago, FreeMan said: Even better would be for the OS to be able to detect that an extended SMART test is running on a disk and simply not spin it down, but I haven't a clue if that's possible or not. That would be a simpler and a more elegant solution for the users' point of view.
May 28, 20251 yr Only learned this was a thing today, really surprised that Unraid restricts the ability to use a useful drive health tool. It should 100% just automatically not spin down a drive if there's a smart test running. How was this not a day1 setting?
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