diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeConfiguration.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeConfiguration.java
index 919777f35191..a477e3876a13 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeConfiguration.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/statemachine/DatanodeConfiguration.java
@@ -384,6 +384,14 @@ public class DatanodeConfiguration extends ReconfigurableConfig {
   )
   private boolean isDiskCheckEnabled = true;
 
+  @Config(key = "hdds.datanode.disk.check.rocksdb.check.io.test.enabled",
+      defaultValue = "true",
+      type = ConfigType.BOOLEAN,
+      tags = {DATANODE},
+      description = "The configuration to enable or disable RocksDb disk IO checks."
+  )
+  private boolean isRocksDbDiskCheckEnabled = true;
+
   @Config(key = "hdds.datanode.disk.check.io.failures.tolerated",
       defaultValue = "1",
       type = ConfigType.INT,
@@ -1013,6 +1021,10 @@ public boolean isDiskCheckEnabled() {
     return isDiskCheckEnabled;
   }
 
+  public boolean isRocksDbDiskCheckEnabled() {
+    return isRocksDbDiskCheckEnabled;
+  }
+
   public Duration getDiskCheckSlidingWindowTimeout() {
     return diskCheckSlidingWindowTimeout;
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/volume/HddsVolume.java b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/volume/HddsVolume.java
index 310c46de5294..8ac48fae748d 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/volume/HddsVolume.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdds/container-service/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/container/common/volume/HddsVolume.java
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ public synchronized VolumeCheckResult check(@Nullable Boolean unused)
 
   @VisibleForTesting
   public VolumeCheckResult checkDbHealth(File dbFile) throws InterruptedException {
-    if (!getDiskCheckEnabled()) {
+    if (!(getDiskCheckEnabled() && getDatanodeConfig().isRocksDbDiskCheckEnabled())) {
       return VolumeCheckResult.HEALTHY;
     }