August 3, 2025Aug 3 I'm a bit surprised there seems to be no way to automatically run SMART tests. While it's pretty easy to roll your own script to do weekly short tests, long tests are more difficult as disks spin down.Methods I have tried (e.g. dd to keep drives alive, hdparm -S 0 to turn off spindown temporarily) fail. I have played around with programatically editing the spindown settings in /var/local/emhttp/disks.ini and restarting emhttp but it's clunky and doesn't seem to be reliable.Is this a feature others would want? Otherwise what workarounds have people found for this? Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by ElNosoLoco I can't type.
August 3, 2025Aug 3 Extended (and short) SMART tests are redundant as long as you have scheduled parity checks. No point running an extended test unless there's already an issue. Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by Kilrah
August 3, 2025Aug 3 Author I don't use parity as my Linux ISOs are easily reacquireable. But I would like to know if my drives are failing so I can replace things ahead of time.
August 3, 2025Aug 3 Author A read check is not the same thing as a low-level hardware check, but if that's OK for your use case then no problems.
August 3, 2025Aug 3 What an extended SMART test is reading the whole surface to see if everything can be read correctly, it's functionally the same, just done internally by the drive. Edited August 3, 2025Aug 3 by Kilrah
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