Comment on Can the SATA-to-USB adapter affect the result of the bad sectors scan?
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 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.nz 4 months ago
smartmontools has some good functionality for interfacing with SMART via usb bridges that do not provide native functionality.