jack4747@gmail.com writes:

> Mmhh, I'm not sure that having a SSD is better than a normal
> mechanical HD, since the bottleneck is the (slow) USB2 connection.
> Raw throughput (with big files) will be the same, and IOPS...mah...I
> expect some buffering in the USB driver linux, and in the USB
> controller on the disk side, so probably the faster access time of the
> SSD is masked by the USB.

Oh, I didn't mention this as any kind of performance upgrade for a
Raspberry Pi. Just an answer to the OP's question about checking the
status of his storage via SMART.

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