USB trouble with external hard disk

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, dem 23.02.2025 um 10:58 +0100 schrieb Liam Proven:
> On 22/02/2025 08:21, Volker Wysk wrote:
> 
> > And,
> > is there a way to test the integrity of that harddisk?
> 
> SMART tests as step 1.

I get this:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               WD
Product:              Elements 107C
Revision:             1065
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        4.000.752.599.040 bytes [4,00 TB]
Logical block size:   4096 bytes
Rotation Rate:        5400 rpm
Form Factor:          3.5 inches
Serial number:        WCC4E0XSN4C1
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Sun Feb 23 17:15:10 2025 CET
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

So the drive isn't SMART enabled. Does this mean that it's really old?
Perhaps I should just scrap it... And see if the IO error also happens in
the replacement disk.

Volker