Way back, RAID controllers could notify you via an email that there was a disk failure or that your RAID array was in jeopardy.
Today, IT is just a hobby for me and I have a bunch of ex-corporate PCs at home that are SSD boot/primary drive + a small SATA drive.
I use the small SATA drive to hold periodic image backups of the SSD primary drive so that if there is ever a catastrophic failure of the SSD, I can plop in a new one and reimage it and carry on. (I realize that I could image them to a shared drive on the network but the ex-corp PCs each have a 500GB SATA drive in them already and so why not use them.)
This backup/recovery scheme does require that the small SATA drive is working properly and has been receiving the periodic SSD images.
With just the motherboard SATA chipset and sata controller of the ex-corp PC, is there a way to receive a notification that something has or is about to go wrong?
I want the same functionality like back when I worked with Adaptec / IBM Megaraid / Dell PERC (etc.) RAID controllers. (Especially now when it may be difficult to have devices send emails because Gmail could erroneously block them as spam.)