Problem/Justification In 25.10 S.M.A.R.T scheduling was removed from the UI and instead moved to cron tasks. Impact A great and user friendly way of working with S.M.A.R.T got substantially worse. An app (Scrutiny) must be installed for advanced monitoring. User Story Literally no one approves …

Hey folks. Thanks for all the feedback. And yes, we DO want to hear and like to hear opinions on this and all topics. The original ask here was to bring SMART scheduling back to the UI, we have discussed internally and opted to NOT proceed that route. That said, we ARE open to constructive asks aro…

I just set up fresh hardware and drives with 25.10. This was my out-of-the box experience: I see Scrutiny handles drive monitoring. I try to install the app, but I receive some inscrutable error about the catalog. Furious Google searching lets me know I need to ‘refresh’ the catalog of something I j…

But this experience is, apparently, what paying and community edition sysadmins were allegedly asking for? As opposed to making SMART scheduling better, SMART interpretation easier, and resolution simpler? I suppose if the goal is to increase the incidence rate for paid support contract contacts, t…

This feature request has just breached 1% support! :partying_face:

Quo non ascendet? [500px-Blason_famille_Fouquet.svg] (Of course, we know how this ended up …)

If SMART is judged to be deficient then invest effort into improving it instead of ditching it from the UI. Don’t ask us to rely on a moribund 3rd party app instead. Plenty of effort has been directed to TN features that no one asked for so why not listen to the community of users instead and dire…

[image] trionic: Plenty of effort has been directed to TN features that no one asked for Hmmm, web-based installer?

I’m not political, but if I ever run for office, I’m hiring @rs443 as my campaign manager. You could die from oxygen deprivation at the top of that vote stack!

Did you hear the one about Chuck Norris vs. @rs443 in a popularity contest?

Guys, we don’t need SMART scheduling :nerd_face: :brain: :rofl:

@HoneyBadger , in under a week, this has more votes than any other feature request ever on this forum, by a margin of nearly 50%. iX’ silence is deafening.

[Not accepted] Bring back SMART scheduling to UI

Feature Requests

awasb November 5, 2025, 10:47am 101

Did you ever consider TrueNAS’s logo colors?

No need to elaborate on FreeBSD’s Beastie’s colors etc. We’ve all seen the matrix. Haven’t we?

Adapting to the loss of SMART integration

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[Not accepted] Bring back SMART scheduling to UI

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