I am one feature away from being sold on unraid. I am incredibly surprised to see that there is no way to schedule a monthly full smart test in the GUI. Imho, that should be considered an essential function. In any case, is there a plugin or some way to put in a script to have the test run on all the drives monthly? I've read that spindown can cause an issue, but I keep that disabled to improve drive life. I have some basic linux knowledge, so if someone can tell me what to put where to accomplish a regular full test, that would be lovely and I'll be making a license purchase.

-Tony

See here for creating custom cron entries.

 

 

I've read that spindown can cause an issue, but I keep that disabled to improve drive life.

 

Since v6.1.4 Unraid disables spin down for any disk doing a SMART test.

 

The reality is that there is probably no compelling reason to do a monthly long SMART test if you have a monthly parity check scheduled as they both will scan the whole drive.  The parity check is probably of more use as it is also checking the total set of disks is consistent. 

 

Monitoring of the actual SMART attributes is now built-in so you already get a notification if the important ones degrade.  If you get one of those notifications you can then make an informed decision as to whether there would be any benefit from running a long SMART test.