Testing SMART status of my USB harddrive
Monday, December 7th, 2009I recently bought an external USB harddrive, made by Toshiba. It’s the HDDR500E03X model with 500GB space, internal shock sensor and ramp loading technology. Now yesterday I learned, that I can also cover its health status using the smartmontools. The usb* device types did not fit, but the sat type worked. It is as easy as running:
smartctl -d sat -c /dev/sdb smartctl -d sat -t long /dev/sdb