Companies don't make products like that anymore whether it is pc components, electronic products or typical home appliances.
Post the screenshot of crystaldiskinfo here(you can hide serial no. in crystaldiskinfo by selecting function--hide serial no.).
I have posted in this thread before, It is Same today too.
Keep an eye on current pending sector count raw value of 63. If you are lucky it may stay there for year+ or it may start increasing sharply within few weeks/months which would be a clear indication of hdd dying. In any case don't keep any important data's only copy on this drive.
Yes I will be checking every week or fortnight.
Too risky, check every day at least once as this value can suddenly start increasing at the rate of 4-5 errors every few seconds/minute when hdd starts dying. When that happen then immediately start copying the most important data as you would have at max few hours/day before hdd dies completely.
I don't really care about data as it is all movies and tv shows. Cannot see daily as it is connected to Raspberrypi. I will need to disconnect and use with windows laptop and see this.
You can use linux equivalent smartctl command for R-pi.
Getting this on linux, no clue why it says smart is not available (not sure if it means unsupported too)
Try some other tools from here:
He mentioned it working with windows & crystaldiskinfo so my guess is that crystaldiskinfo dev incl some proprietary WD driver to read SMART info for such drives.
