On today’s episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, Kris and Chris tackle the TrueNAS 25.10 update feedback head-on. They’ll explain the details behind the NVIDIA driver update, the SMART testing change, and even drive spin-down being not the best choice for your ZFS powered TrueNAS. There’s even more viewer q…

im no expert, but as a layman for my own particular use case, i would use the UI in truenas to do a manual smart short or long, via the UI, since it’s easy to do. thats all i ever used it for. doesnt seem like much, but when my NAS seagate hdd went bad recently, i needed to run a smart. i’m assu…

noticed this other thread for 25.10 [image] Performance issues with new SCALE 25.10.0 system [slow], compared to CORE 13.0-u6.2 [fast] TrueNAS General Could you please provide a detailed list of your hardware components and the exact FIO commands you used? …

yes only have to update and it is fixed now

[image] Captain_Morgan: Please review the release notes and link to these in any discussion Hey that’s great! I missed it totally since there doesn’t seem to be a link to this resource in the SMART GUI restoration request thread , it was not brought up in the second request thread either. A do…

i think a few mentioned a newer nightly beta that is 25.11 or something? i assume u r referring to that? so good to know it was fixed ty. :blush: being a non beta tester i will still wait for the status to indicate the stability [image] TrueNAS Software Status Find the right TrueNAS v…

[image] Constantin: Could you consider including links to documentation based on the content of various techtalks, if applicable? We are discussing how to collect all the info together. In the meantime the release notes are a good summary. It’s a change… our experience is that zfs is now be…

[image] Captain_Morgan: our experience is that zfs is now better than SMART which was developed for generic non-ZFS servers You really need to clarify your messaging here. What I’m seeing here, and in Kris’ posts here on the subject, is “SMART is unreliable, so we’re deprecating it; ZFS is b…

I can give a different kind of example: SMART noted that for one of my drives the helium level was dropping. Per ZFS, the drive was fine. Per SMART, it was on a downward spiral. The correct action was to replace the drive before excessive air resistance / Bernoulli issues caused problems inside the…

Plus, you could record and display the wear indicator for SSDs. Works with both SATA and NVMe: [Bildschirmfoto 2025-11-20 um 16.43.20] This is the percentage of the vendor specified TBW value that has already been used. It’s easily available with smartctl - ignore the formatting for InfluxDB in t…

Responding to your Feedback on 25.10, SMART, NVIDIA, and more | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E045

Announcements

Trevor68 November 20, 2025, 4:22am 42

no, not a nightly.

TrueNAS 25.10.0.1 is Now Available! - Announcements - TrueNAS Community Forums

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Responding to your Feedback on 25.10, SMART, NVIDIA, and more | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E045

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