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I can confirm that this was, in fact the issue. One other struggle I had along the way was getting into the BIOS. It isn't just hitting Delete, F12 or any other F-key. You have to hold Ctrl + F12 to get there. Otherwise you'll always see GRUB with no option to boot from USB, at least in my experience.

I totally hear you on this. Alert Fatigue is a real thing AND a risk. If the dashboard is always red, you eventually stop looking at it, which is exactly when a second drive will fail. That said, please avoid disabling SMART entirely. It’s better to have a "noisy" warning than to be completely blind to a total disk collapse. Here is my take on how to handle this: The risky move is disabling SMART for the disk doesn't just hide the old errors... it stops the system from telling you if the drive starts developing new problems. The reality is HexOS/TrueNAS reports the drive as "Unhealthy" because the drive's own firmware has tripped a threshold. The OS can't "clear" a hardware flag that the disk itself is reporting. The advisement is instead of disabling the service, check the specific SMART attributes (like Reallocated_Sector_Ct). If that number stays static for a few weeks, you might be okay. But if that number is climbing, the drive is a ticking time bomb regardless of the data importance.... replace.... IT.... ASAP. I would recommend you run a long SMART Test. If it passes and the error count doesn't increase, you can sometimes manually tune the alert thresholds in the Disk Settings of TrueNAS to silence that specific error, while keeping the monitor active for new ones. Though that goes against every admin bone in my body. Stay safe with that data my friend.