How do you run a Smart test with FreeNAS

grimreeper132 · June 27, 2018

I want to run a smart test on a couple drives on my FreeNAS how do I do start this test on command without needing to scheduled it??? (I will be scheduling one to be running more commonly but I am wanting to run some initial tests as I am adding more drives into the NAS)

jde3 · June 27, 2018

One way is to just run smartctl from the command line.

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?smartctl(8)

something like smartctl -t short /devpath

Mikensan · June 28, 2018

FreeNAS by default is scheduled to do a long scan every 12 hours everyday. No news is good news, the top right notification icon will get angry if something is amiss.

You can (and I highly suggest) configure email alerting. If it detects a smart error, you'll get an email.

Under Storage > View Disks, you can also view any read/write errors disks may be having, which will give you some insight (though any errors should trigger an alert too).