![]() MacOS doesn’t support the pass through of the whole ATA command set (Why it’s limited) and thus you need a special driver for smartmontools. ![]() ![]() The operating system provides a SCSI pass-through I/O-control which works through its USB-layer.The USB bridge provides an ATA or NVMe pass-through command.You can see this in smartmontools (excellent utility for monitoring drive SMART status via the command line) USB support wiki where they state to support USB they need: Many off brand vendors use chips that only provide read/write functionality because they are substantially cheaper than quality chips that support more functions. ![]() The second part that’s required for this to work is the USB to SATA bridge (the chip in the enclosure) must provide this capability. Though the driver in macOS is very limited, macOS has this ability to identify the drive attached. How to determine if a drive is Solid State via Terminal See the following post for several ways to determine if your drive attached is solid state or not. If the external USB controller supports the whole set of ATA commands you can find out if the drive attached is solid state or not.
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