August 27, 200817 yr I read all of the maintenance posts and know I should run a parity check from time to time. My question is if I run a parity check on say a monthly basis do I need to run the smartctl -t tests or do I just run them if I get errors on the parity check??? Thanks,
August 27, 200817 yr It will not hurt to run the SMART tests monthly. Many errors they detect will not show up in a parity check. I would run the "short" test at least. Joe L.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.