[PLUG] Movie fan needs storage space

[Tom]

That is to be expected for a drive behind simple USB to SATA
controller. If the drive is internally SATA, pull it out of the
enclosure, connect it to SATA port in your PC and get the info.
>From my experience the drives in USB enclosures are typically fine and
have clean Smart data. Data corruption typically happens due to
disconnects, crashes or the usb-sata controller, unless of course it
suffered an impact. Once you recover the data, reformat the drive or
replace broken enclosure, things go back to normal. Based on limited 4
USB drives experience from various people I helped ...
On Sat, 2017-04-01 at 10:15 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 23:09:25 -0700
> Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
> > sudo apt install smartmontools, or whichever tool your distro uses
> > to
> > pull down
> > applications. smartctl is part of the above package.
> 
> Thanks. Got it installed and it works. The only problem is that the
> external USB drive that I am worried about returned this:
> 
> SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.
> Error Counter logging not supported
> Device does not support Self Test logging
> 
> Sigh. :(
> 
> Oh well. I don't have the purchase information, but it has to be at
> least past its three year warranty and the issues it is displaying
> convince me that it's time for replacement.
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