Love how a cheapo AliExpress HDD enclosure allows me to see SMART data and a "branded" one bought on Amazon can't, and even misreports the drive's serial number as the enclosure's.

I may just wait the 4 months it takes for items to arrive to get properly functioning ones.

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Update: I got another enclosure from the same brand (Orico) and this one doesn't do The Thing. I guess it depends on the controller?
The one that does it is an "ASMedia Technology" device.
The one that does not is a JMicron one.

It not only doesn't show the actual drive's info, it's unable to perform or retrieve SMART tests/data.
Could it have to do with UASP?

Either way, it really isn't that big of a deal but dammit, I wanted another cool enclosure.

At this point I should invest in a NAS so I can stop juggling hard drives, heh.

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