I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home.
This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build. I can only guess that the "SMART Tests" feature of the GUI was designed to exclude boot disks because USB disks can't be tested and they made the assumption that a boot disk would be USB. My secondary NAS has been running fine for several months this way. I have manually setup long and short tests using the "Cron Jobs" tab and it appears to have no adverse effect on the system. With actual spinning disks in the unit, they can be setup to have SMART tests done, but if you make those same disks boot drives, they are excluded from the list. My bad, I didn't have a current DB backup, so I had to manually set everything back up.Īfter that, I have gone to a mirrored pair of disks (40 GB laptop spinning disks) in my secondary NAS as a test of the concept and I am currently building a new primary using the same plan.įrom the research I have done, what I have found is that the Web-GUI is set up to specifically exclude the boot device from the list of devices that you can set to be scanned by the SMART tests. I have been using FreeNAS since 2011 and always booted from USB until recently when I had a USB boot device fail and take my primary NAS offline.
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