USB trouble with external hard disk

[Nils Kassube]

On 23.02.25 Volker Wysk wrote:
> Am Sonntag, dem 23.02.2025 um 17:59 +0100 schrieb Nils Kassube via ubuntu-
> users:
> > On 23.02.25 Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Probably the disk is SMART enabled but SMART may not work with the USB
> > enclosure. I have seen that in the past with a disk that sent SMART data
> > while it was connected to the SATA port inside the computer. When I later
> > moved it to a USB enclosure it no longer sent SMART data.
>
> I'm wondering if it is always like this for USB enclosures. I'm about to buy
> another external hard disk to replace the suspicious one...

I don't know ... I only had that one enclosure. My off-the-shelf external disk, which is connected via USB, works with smartctl. So it isn't a problem of the USB connection but the controller inside the enclosure.


Nils