Running gsmartcontrol on a brand new Western Digital hard drive says that SMART support is unavailable. I was under the impression that most hard drives have SMART support these days. Given that Western Digital is a popular company I am a bit shocked that they are manufacturing hard drives without SMART support.
Does anyone know of a work around to check the health of this drive? Hard disk Info: "WD Blue 1TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EZEX" bought from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK. gsmartcontrol output: smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: WDC WD10 Product: EZEX-00BN5A0 Revision: 0106 Compliance: SPC-4 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Logical block size: 512 bytes LB provisioning type: unreported, LBPME=-1, LBPRZ=0 Form Factor: 3.5 inches Logical Unit id: 0x50323039383638bd Serial number: DB98765432117 Device type: disk Local Time is: Sun Nov 15 23:17:54 2015 EST SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability. === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === Error Counter logging not supported Device does not support Self Test logging -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
