USB drive with SMART support?

[Robert Trevellyan]

I just saw a review of a 4TB Seagate portable USB drive on Anandtech, and this caught my eye:

The USB 3.0 bridge chip also supports UASP and S.M.A.R.T passthrough [emphasis added].

Anyone have an experience with this device? Can FreeBSD/FreeNAS see the SMART data?

 

[Ericloewe]

I just saw a review of a 4TB Seagate portable USB drive on Anandtech, and this caught my eye:

Anyone have an experience with this device? Can FreeBSD/FreeNAS see the SMART data?

Smartctl can send ATA commands (including SMART) through a number of popular USB/SATA bridges. The process may require manual specification of the bridge model.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

The process may require manual specification of the bridge model.

So the FreeNAS SMART service probably still wouldn't see the SMART data?

 

[Ericloewe]

So the FreeNAS SMART service probably still wouldn't see the SMART data?

Additional options can be configured, so not necessarily. Just by default. Besides, many popular bridge chips are automagically identified.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Additional options can be configured

I take it you're referring to the "S.M.A.R.T. extra options" field under View Disks. I hadn't thought of that, thanks for the pointer.