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?
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.