While I consider myself quite knowledgeable on the topic, I still like to ask questions to gain other perspectives and opinions. I have six 4TB NVMe modules coming in and I want to test them specifically for thermal properties to ensure I have no issues overheating. I do not want to perform a...

I've been running disk-burning tests on my new HDDs using https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?resources/github-repository-for-freenas-scripts-including-disk-burnin.28/ Of 4 HDDs, 3 of them are showing a lot of read errors. Are they really all damaged? 1 of them is a WD blue (meant for backups...

I am burning in a number of HDDs, using the information contained in this thread: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-hard-drive-burn-in-testing.21451/ And I am getting the following message from badblocks: 'Inappropriate ioctl for device', but the test seems to be working...

I'm planning to upgrade my FreeNAS box, and one of the things that I plan on doing is using an SSD for the boot drive. Given that SSDs have a finite number of writes, it seems unwise to write tons and tons of data just for testing. Am I correct? What is considered best-practice for burning in...

I'll preface by saying that I'm a total FreeNAS newbie and a moderate linux user (more ubuntu than freebsd) I am building a new FreeNAS machine and have installed FreeNAS on it. During the installation process my two storage hard drives (each 4TB WD Red) were configured in a Mirror layout I...

I haven't been able to find a concise "Here's how to burn-in a new drive and confirm it's safe as far as we can tell" checklist. (As in, there's already a FreeNAS box in production and you just want to spin up another temporary one to prep replacement disks.) Between this forum (including this...