Hi, I am planning to purchase a 2.5-inch HDD. If I connect it to my computer using a SATA to USB adapter instead of directly to the computer’s SATA, can it somehow affect the result of this scan?

I apologize for my ignorance but I couldn’t find an answer to this question anywhere

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
    16•5 months ago

    Probably not.

    However, not all USB to SATA adapters support SMART, so even if there is a bad sector that gets remapped by the HDD on-the-fly (and thus does not show up in the software scan), you may not find out easily

    • @Longpork3@lemmy.nzEnglish
      5•5 months ago

      smartmontools has some good functionality for interfacing with SMART via usb bridges that do not provide native functionality.