I’ve had a home server for years, at first using Windows Server, then Unraid, and now using Ubuntu server. I’ve long known that I should keep a close eye on my spinning rust, but I never really knew the best way to have that monitoring quietly automated in the background, only sending me a message when something bad shows up. If it matters at all (I assume it doesn’t) I am using ZFS on Ubuntu (but not using ZFS as root. It’s mounted in e.g ~/user/storage. My primary drive is an SSD)
What are you all using for hard drive monitoring? What are you using for notifications and (generally) how are you linking those two together?
Okay, but how do you monitor the issues with reading and writing?
If I care about the data? It’s on a file system which reports file corruption.
Otherwise? I don’t trust it at all. I back it up and replace the drive when it dies.
A file system that reports file corruption. I believe ZFS is one of those? I’m not really familiar with how that works
That’s what I use personally, I’ve seen the feature elsewhere too.