Re: Should I trust SMART monitoring tools or the Linux kernel drivers?
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 09:02 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> Hm.. I'm not sure whether SMART applies to USB devices, but I could
> well be wrong here. I thought SMART was a (S)ATA/IDE specific thing?
> (corrections are welcome!)
It depends to the USB controllers and drivers, the HDDs connected to the
USB controllers record SMART data, but usually there's no possibility to
get the data, but it's said that SMART by USB does work for some
devices.
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