SMART Test

[McFaul]

Hi,

 

Under "disk details" it shows the various "SMART tests" available, i.e. short, long, conveyance etc..

 

Most of mine show "no error / no test run"

 

Is it possible to trigger a SMART test to run from within StableBit Scanner?  or is it too complicated because each manufacturer has a different way of doing this?

 

I know scanner tests the whole surface once a month, but i'd quite like to run the short SMART test weekly (which is what i had my Synology NAS set up to do - short smart test weekly, long smart test monthly)

 

Thoughts?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

It's definitely possible, but we chose not to enable this option, as these are generally "black box tests" and not every drive supports the tests (even if it says it does).

 

So to prevent issues, we just don't enable the option.

 

 

However, in most cases, a surface scan from StableBit Scanner should pick up most (if not all) of the same issues.