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I've never tried it, but have a look at https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny - maybe could be useful to you?
thanks a lot looks like a great tool
I use smartmontools, you can configure it to send you an email when there is an error on one of your drives.
smartmontools
short/long test
performance tests
Contrary to common belief -> Few bad sectors (pending sectors) are just normal, they are only an issue if the number grows, grows fast or is absurdly high (say 100k)
All HDDs used to come with bad sectors reported. I think they still have bad sectors, firmware just hides it, or perhaps the final QC process at factory scans the drives and takes backup sectors to replace bad ones.
All HDDs come with backup sectors for this purpose. They even do error correcting, re-reads etc. (all the stuff ZFS is supposed to prevent and magically doesn't happen with any other filesystem) on hardware level, in their firmware, with access to signal coherence from read heads directly.
I believe the only time these get reported is when retries go beyond a threshold value set in firmware in read operation, and a sector is bound to be replaced from backup.
looks interesting, and nice ... for those who have few enough platters they can nanny them
In crontab, grep as necessary
Among lots of interesting warnings/errors that would otherwise fly under the radar, it will email you the kernel log spam when disks run into issues
even better, setup rsyslog and collect to another server.
Even better: