Feature request - SMART to report and email properly

[Visseroth]

I recently dealt with a hard drive failure that I didn't even know was happening. It was corrupting data and reared it's ugly head as a bug in the GUI.
I noticed the issue when I looked at the system logs and the console as a CAM error but SMART didn't report any problems. The dashboard said the drive was fine.

Upon pulling the drive I ran a test and low and behold SMART was saying the drive is in a warning state. Reallocation Events and Current Pending Error Counts were flagged.
Again though, SMART on PfSense said nothing.

I created another thread about this found here…
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=131109.0

My original post is found here...
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=131078.0

Point being SMART is not periodically testing. Say on a schedule?

Smart is not able to email upon a pending failure or caution flag.

The drive in which the OS and data is stored is a critical part of a machine. It would be good that a periodic test/check of this component is run. If a warning or failure is detected it would be good to send a notification upon a detected warning and/or alert.

My request is that SMART do more than just be a pretty pretty giving a false sense of security.

I understand that SMART won't detect all errors, but it can detect much of what is going on and most of the time will tell you if a drive in on the fritz or on rather that the drive is on it's way out.

[NOYB]

Wrong forum.

Open board for feedback related to this forum

[Visseroth]

Well sigh. I didn't see the feature request spot.

[NOYB]

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