On Tue, 2019-12-03 at 14:57 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I wonder if you can do SMART checks on them.
Yes.
$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sg1
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: HITACHI
Product: H103030SCSUN300G
Revision: A2A8
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 300,000,000,000 bytes [300 GB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 10020 rpm
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