Someone help a noob on what maintenance i should be doing on Array/HDD's/Filsyst

[Mistershiverz]

Hi all forgive me for some noob questions but just looking to learn a bit on some good procedures i should be doing on a regular basis to maintain the health of my server!

 

I currently have a 16TB array with 4x 4TB WD Reds and have 1x 4TB parity drive.

 

I have been doing some reading on different types of maintenance i should be doing in terms of weekly/monthly tests and checks etc and just wanted to get your feedback on what i should be doing?

 

The only maintenance i have been performing is a parity check once a month, and the preclear which i cycle 3 times on new hard drives i add to the array!

 

I have been doing some reading into scrubs etc i should be doing on the drives but wanted to know your guys feedback?

 

Really just looking for a good plan to maintain the server drive health/parity/filesystems etc your help would be much appreciated.

 

Also filesystem on all the drives is btrfs.

 

Thanks again everyone!

 

[Squid]

Number One thing to do for maintenance is to set up and turn on email notifications (or pushbullet, etc) so that when something eventually goes wrong you'll know about it right away.

[Mistershiverz]

Thanks for the heads up i just set that up with Pushover cheers for that Squid!

 

Also i have your fix common problems plugin so i guess that is another form of maintenance i do!

[JorgeB]

Besides the already mentioned monthly parity check and notifications I recommend adding 199  (UDMA CRC errors) to the monitored SMART attributes.

[bonienl]

If you are using SSD drives, I would recommend to do regular TRIM operations. See the Dynamix SSD TRIM plugin

[Mistershiverz]

Awesome will do those thanks for the help team