Ik heb ook een WD Elements 2TB USB 3 externe schijf. Smart doet het hier.
Model Family: Western Digital My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD20NMVW-11AV3S0
Serial Number: WD-WX91A93E****
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2b3f5d637
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2,00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5200 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Wed Mar 11 19:59:08 2015 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled