Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Hallo.
Many years ago we decided that smartd will not enable self tests by default.
In these old years, there were discs with firmware problems, and self test sometimes caused delays or even freezes. (In these old days, smartd was even disabled by default for the samer reason.) There was discussed possible shortening of life time by self tests.
Over the years, hardware changed a lot. Only two HDD manufacturers remain,
Three - Seagate (+Samsung), Western Digital (+HGST), Toshiba (+Fujitsu).
That is why I think there is a time to re-evaluate the old decision, and think about enabling regular Self Tests by default.
I've been running short selftests every day and a long test on weekends for years on all (S)ATA drives.
Monitoring vital data is enabled in openSUSE since 2010. It is done twice a hour.
I'm curious, how is this done? I don't see anything in smartd.conf nor any cronjob. I don't recall receiving any reports either.
I propose to keep vital S.M.A.R.T. data frequency check on this default. I also propose to not perform Offline tests by smartd, as most (all?) discs do it every 4 hours, and do Short Self Tests instead.
Short Self Test: Short Self Test verifies status of the hardware function. It takes several minutes.
I propose to run Short Self Test once a day.
+1
I propose to run Long Self Test once a month.
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