It comes as a surprise to absolutely no one that the changes to SMART monitoring in TrueNAS 25.10 have been … controversial to say the least. TrueNAS 25.10 removed the UI option to manually schedule SMART short and long testing. Notably, it didn’t “remove SMART” or prevent access to any of the more…

[image] mooglestiltzkin: it was there all along. but what they may have under-estimated, was the home labbers that may not be into commandline stuff, and would rather have these things more easily accessible via the UI with a few clicks I am one of those :smiley:

[image] mooglestiltzkin: also for people who thought scrutiny was abandonware, i noticed a recent update 2 weeks ago. Covered here: [image] Scrutiny is under active development again TrueNAS General For all who missed the memo in that longer thread - Scr…

This is good news.:partying_face: I was wondering if there was any new information regarding disks spinning down.

Let me know if this should be a feature request. I’m rather opinionated on the changes to SMART in 25.10 but as a gesture of goodwill, may I recommend something like a bright orange banner in the SMART webUI (however that returns) with something like… “iXsystems recommends/cautions against the use…

[image] jamesaepp: It points to new users that ZFS scrubs are the priority (I don’t think any reasonable person with all the facts would disagree with this). :hand_with_fingers_splayed: I beg to disagree. SMART tests and ZFS scrubs are both useful, and none should be given precedence, or pr…

The disagreement is welcome. That said, I hope you’ll understand if I stick to the softer “change management” elements rather than hard technicals as I think the technical discussion is best done somewhere other than announcements. My original comment was already bordering on relevance/topic. I s…

[image] jamesaepp: The disagreement is welcome. That said, I hope you’ll understand […] Disagreement is welcome, BUT you are misunderstanding and misrepresenting what I wrote. [image] jamesaepp: I suspect if you ran a poll of all TN users and asked them “Which do you care most about: (A)…

I’m going to be brief. Please assume goodwill. I had no intent of misrepresenting your comments, I was simply responding to how I interpreted them. If that was a misinterpretation, I apologize. You and I probably agree on many things. Let’s leave it at that.

I fully agree to leave it at that, and let the thread be an “announcement.” The “controversy” has been documented.

We’re bringing some SMART options back

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Will it then allow us to turn off SMART polling on individual disks? Or implement the submitted patch that stops TrueNAS from polling drives that are in standby mode (link)? This is important for those of us who like to spin down drives (which I know you say we shouldn’t do).

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We’re bringing some SMART options back

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