I just wanted to give some texture to the conversation here.

Myspace, facebook, digg, twitter, and youtube all launched before you were born. They may not have been popular yet until 2008-2009, but it's very likely your dad has been using some form of social media for the last 18 years.

Don't feed the trolls. Zelifcam heavily edited their original comment which made your reply look like it was stoking a nonexistent fire.

For my own curiosity, I decided to check the release notes. I thought it was weird that TrueNAS would remove SMART monitoring, but looks like they didn't. Just got heavily changed what they're doing with it. The new recommendation is to use a third-party tool which does what TrueNAS was doing with disk monitoring, but does it better.

The short of it is TrueNAS still has smartmontools binaries installed and still monitors SMART data from drives. Just doesn't have the dedicated space in the UI anymore. It'll still alert on SMART failures.

Link to Disk Monitoring in the relevant Release Notes (25.10):

https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/25.10/gettingstarted/versionnotes/#smart-monitoring-and-disk-management-in-2510-and-beyond

Unfortunately all the controller boards appear to be out of stock everywhere.

You missed three th's.

How long is it supposed to take when testing if a Windows 11 update bricks an SSD?

You missed one