I’m a bit extreme. I run bad blocks non stop for a few days. (Usually 3-5) to simulate a workload my NAS will never have. Then I run a smart scan that scans the surface of the entire disk. A little overkill but it works.
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YOLO. Just add them to my array and pray.
https://github.com/Spearfoot/disk-burnin-and-testing is what I've used historically. Generally speaking I only care about doing that on a fresh build of a NAS though. When I'm replacing a single drive, I'll do a long SMART and call it done, since the failure of that new drive won't matter (as much) in the context of a replacement in the array.