I got my 10x HDDs delivered from ServerPartDeals, they’re Dell branded Exos drives, Seller Refurbished
I know one of the first things I’m supposed to do is make sure they’re configured to run at 4K, not 512, so I’ll be checking that.
I’ll also plug them all into a HDD dock and read the SMART data off them.
Afterwards, I remember reading a guide (here I believe) about how to test all the drives. There was a command line tool to check the drive for errors.
Does anyone know what I’m talking about? I remember I had to run a plugin on the computer to make sure I could run multiple instances of it.
Alternately, I intend to spin up a TrueNAS instance for this, does TrueNAS have any built in tool to fully check the drives before I create any pools?
you’re going to run truenas? so ZFS is gonna be your file system?
If so, here’s what I do (I use ZFS)… plug 'em in, run a SMART check (just in case DOA), then BAM straight into production.
No bullshitting.
I have had HDDs pass badblocks, & still fail ZFS. Seeing as it doesn’t get much more strenuous than badblocks, why tf should I bother if even bb isn’t weeding out the weak drives? I have back-ups, so I have nothing to worry about. Just straight in, ZFS will sort 'em out.
If you’re using ZFS, dont’ bother with all the fluffing about of testing etc. ZFS *IS* the test.