And speaking of SMART, I did a cursory check of the health of the current Linux box’s drives, and discovered that they were running a little warm. Like, 49-52C warm. When the recommended temperature is around 40C.
I guess the ventilation in that box isn’t as good as I thought, so I’ve opened up the case to let it cool off a bit, even though it lets a bit more noise escape, too. It’s dropped the temperatures by a few degrees, at least.
Maybe I should start worrying about replacing it with a better system sooner than I thought…