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Check your SMART status with smartctl
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Check your SMART status with smartctl

https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check Install For ubuntu/debian based distros (which is what I primarly use presently) List hard drives is one way or is another smar…
Benchmark your disks with fio
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Benchmark your disks with fio

Intro I use ZFS at home in my homelab for basically all of my storage… Docker uses ZFS backend, all my VMs have their images in their own zfs datasets, and all my shares are ZFS da…