no SMART support for western digital drive
Running gsmartcontrol on a brand new Western Digital hard drive says
that SMART support is unavailable. I was under the impression that
most hard drives have SMART support these days. Given that Western
Digital is a popular company I am a bit shocked that they are
manufacturing hard drives without SMART support.
Does anyone know of a work around to check the health of this drive?
Hard disk Info:
"WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache
3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX" bought from Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK.
gsmartcontrol output:
smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: WDC WD10
Product: EZEX-00BN5A0
Revision: 0106
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
LB provisioning type: unreported, LBPME=-1, LBPRZ=0
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x50323039383638bd
Serial number: DB98765432117
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sun Nov 15 23:17:54 2015 EST
SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging
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