How often to run self-tests?

"Ivan Lezhnjov Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

while reading the man pages I realized that there were some suggestions as to how often certain types of tests could be run. Are they arbitrary or can they be used at least as a sensible starting point?

Per man pages long test can be run weekly, short test daily, automatic offline immediate could be run per vendor default choice of typically each 4 hours and so on.

Well, how often should one run these tests? Any known best practices? Recommendations?

Ivan
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