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I'm a former 4,1 user, myself — replaced with an M2Pro mini Jan 2023 (finally retired fully 2025). Absolutely recommend you purchase the 4-bay Terramaster exte
by ProllyInfamous 7mo ago
I'm a former 4,1 user, myself — replaced with an M2Pro mini Jan 2023 (finally retired fully 2025).
Absolutely recommend you purchase the 4-bay Terramaster external enclosure — gives you four SATA slots that are hot-swappable (unlike MacPro's). 10gbps via USB-C.
- Marsymars 7mo agoAre SMART attributes independently readable on that? (Or any multi-drive USB-C enclosures?)
- ProllyInfamous 7mo ago>or any USB-C enclosure SMART is supported on my external Acasis nVME. ---- I have two TerraMaster sledbads; this one [typing] is years older [only 5gbps, macOS Ventura] and shows `SMART: not supported` [1] [1] It's mirrored WD_blacks (RAID1) so I have at least some redundancy... I know: a RAID does NOT count as "backed-up". ---- Within an hour I'll have checked the newer system (I suspect it'll be similar — definitely faster!). #TodayIlearnt
- ProllyInfamous 7mo agoIt does not appear that SMART is supported on either version of my TerraMaster enclosures. Still an inexpensive solution to help ease your transition away from MacPro"5,1"land. As USB-C is a physical form factor (capable of supporting multiple protocols), I would think that the ability to have multidrive external SMART support would be up to the vendor's choice of datachip/datastream. Again: my Acasis does support SMART for nVMEs.