Are there 3.5 HDD enclosures with SMART working on Mac?

[Astrohunter]

Hi,

As in title, trying to find one in UK but no luck.

 

[PaulD-UK]

This was commonplace in the era of Thunderbolt 1/2.

Connect a Thunderbolt 2 dock to the Mac, and connect the HDD to the dock using SATA/eSATA.
Then use DriveDx to read the SMART data.

All this is still available, but using 'used' kit. Add the Apple TB2<>TB3 adapter, and a TB2 cable.

There are new TB3 3.5" HDD enclosures, but mostly these are more high-end RAID enclosures, which adds complexity...

 

[benwiggy]

MacOS doesn't support SMART over USB, so it needs to be a Thunderbolt-connected device.

There is an open source SMART driver for Macs, but it is a kernel extension, which are now deprecated if not actually no longer supported.

 

[MacCheetah3]

Foremost, they need to support the UAS protocol.

DriveDx - external USB and FireWire drive diagnostics support

binaryfruit.com

[...] unlike all other M-Series processors released after, the base M1 does not support USB Attached SCSI Protocol, or UASP.

A Note About USB Performance on M1 Macs

OWC testing has found USB performance on base model M1 Macs to lag behind other chips. Here's why.

www.owc.com