Drive replacement question

[SmallBarky]

Not sure what the current advice is but it may be covered in the thread for the Multi Report.

Multi-Report

Updated: 09 June 2025 - New Version Multi-Report is script which was originally designed to monitor key Hard Drive and Solid State Drive data and generate a nice email with a chart to depict the drives and their SMART data. And of course to sound the warning when something is worth noting. Features: Seagate Drive SCAM test Easy To Run (Depends on your level on knowledge) Very Customizable Sends an Email clearly defining the status of your system Runs SMART Self-tests on NVMe (CORE/SCALE can…

Another thread that asked about SMART test frequency

Newbie Q: Frequency of scrub and long SMART tests on large HDDs (20TB)

Now that all my HDDs (4x 20TB WD Red Pro) have arrived and I’ve run and initial burn-in test (full write and read cycle), I have created my first pool (“elephant”) in my homelab system running TrueNAS Scale 24.10.1 with the four drives in raidz2 configuration. (For hardware info see my signature.) After configuring mail and alert settings, I am now looking at setting up data scrubs and long SMART tests and I am wondering what a suitable frequency would be. Originally I was planning to run each …